Re: [Gluster-users] HELP: problem of stripe expansion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-07-01 Thread Anand Babu Periasamy
You cannot expand stripe directly. You have to use distribute + stripe, where you scale in stripe sets. For example, if you have 8 nodes, you create = distribute(stripe(4)+stripe(4)) Now if you want to scale your storage cluster, you should do so in stripe sets. Add 4 more nodes like this: =

Re: [Gluster-users] HadoopFS-like gluster setup

2009-07-01 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Peng Zhao wrote: Hi, all, I'm new to gluster, but found it interesting. I want to setup gluster in a way to be similar with HDFS. There is my sample vol-file: volume posix type storage/posix option directory /data1/gluster end-volume volume locks type features/locks subvolumes posix

Re: [Gluster-users] HELP: problem of stripe expansion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-07-01 Thread eagleeyes
If i need height available with afr , did it use distribute + stripe + afr just like distribute(stripe( afr(2) 4)+stripe( afr(2) 4)+stripe( afr(2) 4)) ?? 2009-07-01 eagleeyes 发件人: Anand Babu Periasamy 发送时间: 2009-07-01 14:01:14 收件人: eagleeyes 抄送: gluster-users 主题: Re:

[Gluster-users] DHT and adding bricks

2009-07-01 Thread Daniel
hello there sorry for the newbie question, but I couldn't find an answer thru the old messages I am researching glusterfs for a personal project involving a constantly growing storage farm my config is simple: several bricks and a server doing DHT using cluster/distribute just like

Re: [Gluster-users] HadoopFS-like gluster setup

2009-07-01 Thread Pavel Riha
On Wednesday 01 of July 2009 03:50, Peng Zhao wrote: [2009-07-01 09:37:36] E [xlator.c:736:xlator_init_rec] xlator: Initialization of volume 'fuse' failed, review your volfile again I got this error when the fuse module was not loaded, so check this first.. modprobe fuse ls -l /dev/fuse

Re: [Gluster-users] HadoopFS-like gluster setup

2009-07-01 Thread Peng Zhao
OK, my stupid. There was no fuse module. I built one and modprobe fuse. The previous error is gone, with some new one: Here are the DEBUG-level msg: [2009-07-01 18:36:25] D [xlator.c:634:xlator_set_type] xlator: dlsym(notify) on /usr/lib64/glusterfs/2.0.2/xlator/features/locks.so: undefined

Re: [Gluster-users] HadoopFS-like gluster setup

2009-07-01 Thread Vijay Bellur
Peng Zhao wrote: [2009-07-01 18:36:25] E [socket.c:206:__socket_server_bind] server: binding to failed: Address already in use [2009-07-01 18:36:25] E [socket.c:209:__socket_server_bind] server: Port is already in use [2009-07-01 18:36:25] E [server-protocol.c:7631:init] server: failed to

[Gluster-users] Client detect when server comes back up

2009-07-01 Thread Simon Liang
Hi, I have a basic 2 server (serverA and serverB) replication with 1 client. Sometimes serverB will go offline, so client is writing directly to serverA. However when serverB comes back online, the client does not detect this and ignore serverB until I restart the client. Is this

[Gluster-users] intended use cases

2009-07-01 Thread Kent Tong
Hi, What are the intended use cases for gluster? For example, is it suitable for, say, replacing a SAN? For example, is it good for the following? [ ] Storing a huge volume of seldom accessed files (file archive) [ ] Storing frequently read/write files (file server) [ ] Storing frequently read

[Gluster-users] Performance question

2009-07-01 Thread Joe Julian
I'm using an unpatched fuse 2.7.4-1 and glusterfs 2.0.2-1 with the following configs and have this result which surprised me: # dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=512k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 14.1538 seconds, 37.9 MB/s # dd if=/dev/zero of=foo