I'm new to GlusterFS but it works really well for me as a distributed file system. I have a question about my setup and if I should use the partition I store the GlusterFS brick on for anything else. My setup looks like this.
Server 1: /external/array1/brick1/
Server 2: /external/array2/brick2/
Server 3: /external/array3/brick3/
I then used GlusterFS to make a distributed file system with each brick1,2,3 into one volume to mount.
My question is what happens to GlusterFS if I add something to array1,2,3 where the brick is stored. It is competing for space on the partition. For instance, say I have a constantly growing directory at /external/array1/growing_directory
How would that effect GlusterFS distributed file system. Will it know how to shrink the brick due to the growing directory that is competing with space?
Thanks so much