Dear Craig, I'm afraid I wasn't able to start a self heal the way you suggested. I tested the following: ---------- WHAT I DID ---------- I created on fs7:/storage/7 user_7_1 user_7_2 user_7_3 and on fs8:/storage/8 user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 and filled all of the directories with some small files and subdirectories. Then, on fs8: gluster volume create heal_me transport tcp 192.168.101.246:/storage/8 192.168.101.247:/storage/7 Then on fs8 and afterwards on fs7: mount -t glusterfs localhost:/heal_me /tempmount/ cd /tempmount find . | xargs stat >>/dev/null 2>&1 umount /tempmount All went well, no error messages or anything. The output of `find . | xargs stat` is probably too long to post it here, but there were no error messages or anything else that would look suspicious to me. ------- RESULTS ------- ls fs8:storage/8 user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 ls fs7:/storage/7 user_7_1 user_7_2 user_7_3 user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 ls client:/storage/gluster user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 ls fs7:/tempmount user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 ls fs8:/tempmount user_8_1 user_8_2 user_8_3 Unmounting and remounting has no effect. Servers are both Ubuntu Server 10.4, client is CentOS 5, 64bits all around. Thanks and regards, Daniel On 12/03/2010 10:10 AM, Craig Carl wrote: > Daniel - > If you want to export existing data you will need to run the self heal > process so extended attributes can get written. While this should work > without any issues it isn't an officially supported process, please make > sure you have complete and up to date backups. > > After you have setup and started the Gluster volume mount it locally on > one of the servers using `mount -t glusterfs localhost:/<volname> /<some > temporary mount>`. CD into the root of the mount point and run `find . | > xargs stat >>/dev/null 2>&1` to start a self heal. > > Also the command you used to create the volume should not have worked, > it is missing a volume name - gluster volume create <VOLNAME> transport > tcp fs7:/storage/7, fs8:/storage/8, typo maybe? > > Please let us know how it goes, and please let me know if you have any > other questions. > > Thanks, > > Craig > > --> > Craig Carl > Senior Systems Engineer; Gluster, Inc. > Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) > Office - (408) 770-1884 > Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com > Twitter - @gluster > http://rackerhacker.com/2010/08/11/one-month-with-glusterfs-in-production/ > > > > > On 12/02/2010 11:38 PM, Daniel Zander wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> at our institute, we currently have 6 file servers, each one of them >> individually mounted via NFS on ~ 20 clients. The structure on the >> servers and the clients is the following: >> >> /storage/1/<user_directories> (NFS export from FS1) >> /storage/2/<user_directories> (NFS export from FS2) >> etc ... >> >> Recently, we decided that we would like to migrate this to glusterFS, >> so that we can have one big storage directory on the clients. Let's >> call it >> >> /gluster/<user_directories> >> >> I tried to set up a gluster volume with two empty fileservers and it >> worked without any problems. I could easily mount it on a client and >> use it (using the native glusterFS mount). >> >> If we now want to migrate the entire institute, it would be very >> convenient, if existing folders could be easily included into a new >> volume. I tried to do this, but I did not succeed. >> >> Here's a short description of what I tried: >> >> Existing folders: >> on fs7: /storage/7/user_1,user_2 >> on fs8: /storage/8/user_3,user_4 >> >> gluster volume create transport tcp fs7:/storage/7, fs8:/storage/8 >> >> I hoped to see on the client: >> /gluster/user_1 >> /gluster/user_2 >> /gluster/user_3 >> /gluster/user_4 >> >> The creation was successful, the volume could be started and mounted. >> On the client, however, I could only find (via "ls /gluster") the >> directories user_1 and user_2. But when I tried "cd /gluster/user_3", >> it succeeded! Now "ls /gluster" showed me user_1, user_2 and user_3. >> Unfortunately, user_3's subdirectories and files were still invisible, >> but with the above mentioned trick, I could make them visible. >> >> This is however not an option, as there are too much users and too >> complicated file structures to do this manually. It anyhow seems like >> Voodoo to me. >> >> Is it possible to include all of the existing directories in the new >> glusterFS volume? If yes: how? >> >> Thank you in advance for your efforts, >> Regards, >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
