2009/3/28 Simon Liang <simonl at bigair.net.au> > Well currently I've got 4 servers set up. > |- ServerA -AFR-> ServerB > Client -| > |- ServerC -AFR-> ServerD > > I keep copying the same 1GB file to the storage, but it always writes to > ServerC no matter what I do. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Add > scheduler? > My understanding is that distribute uses a hash to do the distribution. So, if you copy the same file, you will get the same result every time; that is, it will go to the same server every time. Hashing is deterministic in that sense. Vikas or someone else may clarify if I have things wrong here.... Sean > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: vikasgp at gmail.com on behalf of Vikas Gorur > Sent: Sat 3/28/2009 3:53 PM > To: Simon Liang > Cc: gluster-users > Subject: Re: Distrbute AFR Storage > > 2009/3/28 Simon Liang <simonl at bigair.net.au>: > > How can I configure it so it writes it evenly to both servers, keeping > the > > free disk space even? > > Distribute by default will distribute _files_ evenly among its > subvolumes. However, if one of the files is larger than the disk space > available on the node it gets scheduled to, then distribute can do > nothing. If you regularly want to store big files which might not fit > on one of your subvolumes, you might want to try the 'stripe' > translator. > > Vikas > -- > Engineer - Z Research > http://gluster.com/ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.29/2024 - Release Date: 03/27/09 > 18:51:00 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20090328/97f95e86/attachment-0001.htm>
