Re: [Gluster-users] Existing Data and self mounts ?

2012-06-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 06/04/2012 07:15 PM, Amar Tumballi wrote: Do you know if I'll be able to convert a distribute to distribute-replicate this way? 1) delete the distribute volume 2) create a distribute-replicate volume 3) run the self-heal, which hopefully results in the data moved to the other brick, *not*

Re: [Gluster-users] Existing Data and self mounts ?

2012-06-04 Thread Jacques du Rand
Hi David Thanks for clearing it up With regards to the "self-heal": find /mnt/gfstest -noleaf -print0 | xargs --null stat >/dev/null a) I do this on the server(1|2|client|doesnt-matter) ? IF server1 is the one with the latest copy of data b) Would the self-heal i've been reading about in 3.3 no

Re: [Gluster-users] Existing Data and self mounts ?

2012-06-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
On 06/04/2012 05:21 PM, David Coulson wrote: Question (4.2) -Is it safe to create a brick in a directory that already has files in it ? As long as you force a self-heal on it before you use it. Do you know if I'll be able to convert a distribute to distribute-replicate this way? 1) delet

Re: [Gluster-users] Existing Data and self mounts ?

2012-06-04 Thread David Coulson
On 6/4/12 4:05 AM, Jacques du Rand wrote: HI Guys This all applies to Gluster3.3 I love gluster but I'm having some difficulties understanding some things. 1.Replication(with existing data): Two servers in simple single brick replication. ie 1 volume (testvol) -server1:/data/ && server2:/d

[Gluster-users] Existing Data and self mounts ?

2012-06-04 Thread Jacques du Rand
HI Guys This all applies to Gluster3.3 I love gluster but I'm having some difficulties understanding some things. 1.Replication(with existing data): Two servers in simple single brick replication. ie 1 volume (testvol) -server1:/data/ && server2:/data/ -server1 has a few millions files in the /d