On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 02:33:55PM +0100, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: > Hello, > > Most of my gluster mounting points (in replica mode) are full of sequential > directories (a0, a1, etc...) in .glusterfs. Those data usually reach several > GB and finally block the volume. > Are those data usefull and is there a way to reduce them, maybe with less > verbosity?
These directories are used to find files by their GFID (volume wide
inode). The actual files are hardlinks to the files on the volume/brick
and do not take any extra space. The symbolic links you find under
.glusterfs/ point to directories on the volume/brick.
Some more details have been posted here:
http://joejulian.name/blog/what-is-this-new-glusterfs-directory-in-33/
Does this clear things up?
Niels
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