I have been told this is do-able but I haven't tested it much myself. I
would be interested in hearing about this from anyone who has done it.
From what I heard on irc you can do the following:
1. Have existing data in server1:/data1
2. Stop all changes to server1:/data1
3. Create a volume: gluster volume create....server1:/data1 server2:/data2
4. Mount the new volume via FUSE
5. Trigger a self-heal: find gluster-mount -noleaf -print0 | xargs
--null stat >/dev/null
I also heard that there could be GFID problem if the data was previously
in another Gluster volume.
Jeff White - Linux/Unix Systems Engineer
University of Pittsburgh - CSSD
On 12/15/2011 01:48 PM, Harry Mangalam wrote:
The use case is that we have a multiTB data partition that we would
like to glusterize. Could we add that store to a gluster volume and
have it explicitly rebalance across the gluster volume? Or would the
existing files/layout be ignored?
this would be a big selling point in justifying gluster to owners of
large existing data stores.
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