2007/12/10, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:12:50AM +0000, DeeDee Park wrote: > > > > What is the procedure for removing a brick from operation without > loosing any of the data while still > > providing an operational file system for the other users? > > And just to jump in with a similar issue: > What's the preferred way to backup a glusterfs brick, and even more > important: > how to restore it? > My prospective use of glusterfs will be quasi-static storage of data which > are hard to reproduce from other sources (mostly because of bandwidth > reasons) > so there's a need to keep a local backup (and since several n-TB volumes > are > involved, having only one overall backup might become tricky). OTOH there > may be ways to fill a volume without glusterfs being aware of it - is > there > a way yet to tell glusterfs not to write to an individual volume? Is snapshotting what you are looking for? it is possible to make unify not to schedule files to a subvolume be marking them with 'option read-only-subvolumes vol1 vol2' etc. avati -- If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.
