On 28 Sep 2010, at 09:11, Marcus Bointon wrote: > When I say they're out of sync I mean that there are files on one but not the > other (both ways around, so both additions and deletions have not happened at > some point) - I'm using cluster/replicate. I'm using gluster purely for > redundancy (images on a web server farm), not space or performance, and only > have a very small volume of data. I could quite reasonably delete everything > from the trailing node and copy back from the one that's ok. > > The main thing I'm not clear on is what (if any) data gluster stores apart > from what's in the backing store, i.e. is it safe to stop servers, copy > content around then restart them and expect them to be ok? Is there some > secret data stash that will get confused if I do that?
Just a little bump on this. Can I move stuff around while gluster isn't running and have it be OK when it starts back up? Or will I miss some other metadata store/cache? Can I force gluster to resync with the backing store? On a related topic, I'm also thinking about moving one of the nodes between servers since I need to take load off one of them - can I copy the backing store on to the new server and redeploy the new client configs and expect it to work? Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Creators of http://www.smartmessages.net/ UK resellers of i...@hand CRM solutions [email protected] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
