Thanks to all of you for your answers.
I will try the archive tool as recommended by Aravinda.
Just for your information I suppose you are aware that having tons of files
such as the CHANGELOGS in one single directory is really sub-optimal. Maybe
better would be to have a 2 level hierarchy and store the files using an
algorithm to distribute the files among that 2 level hierarchy of
sub-directories, especially if there is no archiving of these files by default.
Just my two cents ;-)
Cheers
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Fw: Deletion of old CHANGELOG files in
.glusterfs/changelogs
Local Time: April 5, 2017 8:44 AM
UTC Time: April 5, 2017 6:44 AM
From: [email protected]
To: Mohammed Rafi K C <[email protected]>
mabi <[email protected]>, Gluster Users <[email protected]>
Local Time: March 31, 2017 11:22 PM
UTC Time: March 31, 2017 9:22 PM
From: [email protected]
To: Gluster Users
[<[email protected]>](mailto:[email protected])
Hi,
I am using geo-replication since now over a year on my 3.7.20 GlusterFS volumes
and noticed that the CHANGELOG.<TIMESTAMP> in the .glusterfs/changelogs
directory of a brick never get deleted. I have for example over 120k files in
one of these directories and it is growing constantly.
So my question, does GlusterFS have any mechanism to automatically delete old
and processed CHANGELOG files? If not is it safe to delete them manually?
I will try to answer the question, I'm not an expert in geo-replication, So I
could be wrong here. I think GlusterFS won't delete the changelogs
automatically, reason being geo-replication is not the author of changelogs, it
is just a consumer any other application could use changelogs.
+1 for the reasoning.
You can safely delete *all processed* changelogs from actual changelogs
directory and geo-replication directory. You can look into the stime set as the
extended attribute on the root to see the time which geo-replication last
synced.
If georep is the only consumer, you can use [Aravinda's
tool](https://github.com/aravindavk/archive_gluster_changelogs)to move the
files to another dir, and delete them.
Regards,
Amar
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