Is there a way to use a round-robin or something, as opposed to hash? The problem with distribute is that it does not know the disk has run out of space, until it's starting copying and run out of space. Can this be avoided? -----Original Message----- From: seandavi at gmail.com on behalf of Sean Davis Sent: Sat 3/28/2009 9:51 PM To: Simon Liang Cc: Vikas Gorur; gluster-users Subject: Re: Distrbute AFR Storage 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 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20090328/a7a13bdf/attachment.htm>