Hi Denis, understood.
What if in the case of adding a fourth host to the running cluster, will the copy of data be kept only twice in any of the 4 servers ?
gluster volume create test-volume replica 2 transport tcp server1:/b1 server2:/b2 server3:/b3 server4:/b4
test-volume would be like a RAID10 - you will have two replica volumes b1+b2 and b3+b4 combined into a single distributed volume. In that case you will