The file gets renamed on the distribute subvolume where it's stored and the subvolume where the new hash points gets a "sticky pointer" that points to where the file actually resides.

On 10/13/2012 07:52 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
In a distributed volume (glusterfs 3.3), files within a directory are
assigned to a brick by a hash of their filename, correct?

So what happens if you do "mv foo bar"? Does the file get copied to another
brick? Is this no longer an atomic operation?

Thanks,

Brian.
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