Thanks, This helps a lot... if we move off of GlusterSP and use GlusterFS (which it looks like we might have to do since SP doesn't give you root access) then I can attempt this method. Any advice for how to re-balance the volume once this is done? Is there a command I need to call? Thanks, Drew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bala.JA" <bala at gluster.com> To: "Drew Morris" <drew at drewmorris.com> Cc: <gluster-users at gluster.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:40 AM Subject: Re: Expanding a Volume with GlusterSP > > Hi Drew, > > Gluster Platform 3.0.X doesn't have straight forward way for volume > expansion. Its required to do manual change in files, > > 1. /GLUSTER/volumes.xml on all servers and /GLUSTER/global-volumes.xml > file in server1. > 2. Creating volume exports directory under data partition mount > points(/exports/DISKPARTITION/) in new servers. > 3. Editing /etc/glusterfs/*VOLUME*.vol files in all servers and have same > copy in new servers. > > All the above steps should be done when the volume is offline. > > Thanks, > > Regards, > Bala > > > Drew Morris wrote: >> I have recently setup GlusterSP and I was able to get it up and running >> with >> 2 machines (mirrored) as a single volume. >> >> Adding additional nodes to the cluster seemed easy enough and I have >> added 2 >> more nodes but I cannot seem to add them to my existing volume. Does >> anyone >> have any instructions for how to expand a pre-existing mirrored volume >> and >> add additional capacity to it? The user interface does not seem to let >> you >> expand a volume dynamically. I know there is a way to do this in the >> standard >> GlusterFS but I don't remember the process and I think it involved manual >> processes and some scripts for re-balancing the data. Any help would be >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Drew >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing >> list Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
