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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I have 3 ZONEs, with different capacity in each. Say I have 4 X 1TB disk (r0z1 - 1TB, r0z2 - 1TB,r0 z3 - 2TB ).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The ring builder (rebalance code), keep ¼-partitions of all 3 replica in Zone-3. This is the current default behavior from the rebalance code.</p><p class="MsoNormal">This puts pressure to the storage user to evenly increase the storage capacity across the zones. Is this is the correct understanding I have ?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">If so, Why have we chosen this approach, rather cant we enforce zone based partition (but the partition size on Z1 and Z2 may be lesser than Z3) ?</p><p class="MsoNormal">This makes sure we have 100% zone level protection and not loss of data on 1 zone failure ?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p><p class="MsoNormal">-kiru</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>