we will be putting up a migration document (from unify) on the wiki in the DHT section. avati 2008/11/17 NovA <av.nova@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello everybody! > > As 1.4 release is approaching I'm preparing migration from 1.3. I hope > that DHT could increase performance a lot for our 24-nodes computing > cluster. Now unify really slows down file IO if there are hundreds of > files in a dir... > What is the simplest way for switching from unify to DHT? As I > understand, ideally one should recreate glusterfs volumes from scratch > to initialize new DHT file scheduling. But it could be problematic in > our case... What will happen if I start new glusterFS with DHT over > existing backends with thousands of files distributed by unify? Can it > reschedule files during self-healing process or something like that? > Or will it just stuck or even corrupt data? > > Thanks in advance for any comments. > > Best regards, > Andrey > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
