Description of problem: It is not possible to prioritize to which brick the files from the removed brick go. This could be useful in case of adding a new brick then removing an older brick in order to move all the files from the older brick to the new brick.
In my opinion, as files get distributed based on the elastic hashing algorithm used, it shall not be possible (by design) to move the files to a specific brick chose by admin. CCin few who shall be able to provide better inputs.
changing version to mainline in order to retire pre-release. If you know the appropriate, correct version for this bug, please set it.
We wouldn't be working on this feature in the near term, and hence will mark it as DEFERRED. We will revisit this after couple of more releases.