On 03/12/2010 10:15, gluster-users-request at gluster.org wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:10:31 -0800 > From: Craig Carl<craig at gluster.com> > Subject: Re: Start a new volume with pre-existing > directories > To:gluster-users at gluster.org > Message-ID:<4CF8B407.2070203 at gluster.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > 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/ > > Craig, is this the recommended self heal method in all cases now then, or is "ls -aR" still better in some circumstances? -Dan.
