On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I cant find the mail, I noticed it a few days ago, someone mentioned > > something about setting the file attributes to 3? Does that make > > sense? > > > > Anyway, it sounded like what may have been giving me some grief last > > time I set up a 2 server afr config. On one server I had my web data, > > and on the other i had a new blank folder. I thought by setting up > > gluster (using the existing dir on one, and a new empty dir on the > > other) that by doing the find () trick it would sync all the files, > > but is this maybe not true? > > > > I bring this up for 2 reasons, one to have it answered, and two > > because maybe this shoud be on the wiki somewhere. > > > > When setting up a new afr, should you start with 2 empty directories > > and then copy your files to the glusterfs mount, or should you do an > > rsync and then do the set attributes to 3 thing (could someone give a > > little more detail or correct my language on this?). > > > > Hopefully I am making some sense with my question, Im not totally > > clear on it myself. > > > > thanks! > > http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Automatic_File_Replication_%28Mirror%29_across_Two_Storage_Servers > > Maybe this page could be worked up a little more with some information on this? > > I apologize for not knowing, Im not sure who all does the examples or > if its one person or what. Could the person(s) in charge of the > examples or maybe just this one add more to this though? > > It may seem redundant to those that are comfortable configuring the > bricks, but myself, I dont fully understand what should go where, what > order. I understand this is a hard question to answer though because > of how configurable glusterfs can be. > > So my request I guess is specific to a 2 machine, server side afr with > many clients config example(s). > > Maybe start with the basic one that is there, then add a few more > examples with how you might tune it with performance translators and > such. It would just save a little time compared to the trial and error > method. > Ok so using the setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.version -v 3 <file/dir> command, do you need to build a script to recurvisely go through every file/folder for the given path?
