i understand that, but in this case, i have an other problem : it seems that's load balancing between subvolumes does not work very well, the first server in subvolumes list is very often use compare to other server ( in read ) = > so i 've big ressource network usage and this first server, not in second . nicolas On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:25:21 +0530, Vikas Gorur <vikas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> 2009/3/19 Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:14:18 +0530, Vikas Gorur <vikas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> 2009/3/19 Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>> How does this affect adding new servers into an existing cluster? >>>> >>>> Adding a new server will work --- as and when files are accessed, new >>>> extended attributes will be written. >>> >>> And presumably, permanently removing servers should also work the same >>> way? >>> I'm only asking because I had a whole array of weird spurious problems >>> before when I removed a server and added a new server at the same time. >> >> Removing a server might not work so seamlessly, since the new client >> will expect smaller size extended attributes whereas the older files >> will have bigger ones. IIRC, this was the source of the errors you >> faced ("Numerical result out of range"). Fixes for this are on the >> way. > > Ah, OK, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up. > > Now if just the lockup on udev creation (root on glusterfs) in rc4 and the > big memory leak I reported get sorted out, I'll have a working system. ;) > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >