Re: about Qluster FS configuration

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On Nov 16, 2007 1:18 PM, Felix Chu <felixchu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am new user to this QlusterFS project. I just started the test in local
> environment with 3 server nodes and 2 client nodes.
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> So far, it works fine and now I have two questions:
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> 1.      I cannot understand the option related to "namespace" clearly. I
> find that in most of the server conf files separated "DS" and "NS" volumes,
> what is the purpose of it?
>

namespace is used :
* to assign inode numbers
* to readdir(), instead of reading contents of all the subvols, unify
readdir()s just from NS.

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> e.g. in
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_High_Availability_Storage_wi
> th_GlusterFS
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> there are "ds" and "ns" volumes in this config
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> volume mailspool-ds
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>            type storage/posix
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>            option directory /home/export/mailspool
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>    end-volume
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>    volume mailspool-ns
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>            type storage/posix
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>            option directory /home/export/mailspool-ns
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>    end-volume
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> 2.      In my testing environment, I applied the replication function to
> replicate from one server to other 2 servers. Then I unplug one of the
> server. On client side it still ok to access the mount point. After a
> period, I up the unplugged server again and find that all data during the
> outage period does not appear on this server. Any steps required to sync
> data back to new recovered server?
>

You need to open() that file to trigger selfheal for that file.

Krishna




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