Riak does not currently try to protect you against dumping 2 gallons of water in a 1 gallon jug, so each node will write data until it can’t.
-John On Apr 23, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Alex De la rosa <alex.rosa....@gmail.com> wrote: > Cool, thank you :) however, is true that if 4 nodes are 1TB and the other one > is 2TB; the 5 nodes will act as having 1TB each, right? (I guess that's what > you mean with "Riak allocates data to nodes evenly") > > Thanks, > Alex > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Jon Meredith <jmered...@basho.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Riak allocates data to nodes evenly - it doesn't take into account free > space. You should just be able to upgrade all nodes to 1Tb and Riak will use > the space, without needing to take any additional actions. > > Jon > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Alex De la rosa <alex.rosa....@gmail.com> > wrote: > Hi there, > > I have the following question about scaling up vertically upgrading HDs to > get more space. I have the understanding that if HDs are of different sizes > on ring creation, they get the smallest size of them all and make all nodes > even, for example: > > Node 1: 500GB > Node 2: 500GB > Node 3: 750GB > Node 4: 500GB > Node 5: 750GB > > In this case riak would make a parity of 500GB per node... so... how could we > scale up the HDs? Imagine I want to turn them into the following: > > Node 1: 1TB > Node 2: 1TB > Node 3: 1TB > Node 4: 1TB > Node 5: 1TB > > How can you rebalance the cluster in the way their partitions grow to fit > this new setup? (using Riak 2.1) > > Thanks, > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > > -- > Jon Meredith > Chief Architect > Basho Technologies, Inc. > jmered...@basho.com > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
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