Description of problem: ======================= Currently there is disperse and disperse-data options that can be used during EC volume creation. This is creating confusion as to which one to be used. Remove disperse-data option to make it consistent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ============================================================= [root@vertigo rhs]# gluster --version glusterfs 3.7dev built on Apr 18 2015 01:08:09 Repository revision: git://git.gluster.com/glusterfs.git Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Gluster Inc. <http://www.gluster.com> GlusterFS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of GlusterFS under the terms of the GNU General Public License. [root@vertigo ~]# gluster volume create Usage: volume create <NEW-VOLNAME> [stripe <COUNT>] [replica <COUNT> [arbiter <COUNT>]] [disperse [<COUNT>]] **[disperse-data <COUNT>]** [redundancy <COUNT>] [transport <tcp|rdma|tcp,rdma>] <NEW-BRICK>?<vg_name>... [force] The one marked in the *'s should be removed.
This is added based on the requests that people liked creating the volume using k, m in n=k+m equation of ec. So won't be fixing this.