Roland - You can find the scale-n-defrag script here - http://ftp.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/misc/defrag/ , be sure to edit the script first, instructions are inline. Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Craig -- Craig Carl Sales Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - ( 408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - ( 408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com Twitter - @gluster Installing Gluster Storage Platform, the movie! http://rackerhacker.com/2010/08/11/one-month-with-glusterfs-in-production/ From: "Roland Rabben" <roland at jotta.no> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:48:23 AM Subject: Re: Adding new storage nodes to existing GlusterFS network Hi James, thanks for the answer I will try this tomorrow. I am adding the new servers for capacity increase. Do you have any idea how to rebalance old files? Regards Roland Rabben 2010/9/22 Burnash, James <jburnash at knight.com> > Hi Roland. > > The short answer is - I'm not sure because I'm in the midst of doing this > myself, but my setup is just Replicated. > > I believe that you can do what you said with the clients because they are > the only entities with knowledge of what servers are in the backend, so > adding new servers to their configs and restarting those clients should work > just fine, assuming you get the replication/distributed part of their > configs correct. > > The one thing is, from what I understand, no rebalancing of old files will > take place on the new servers automatically - that's a manual procedure - > but any new files written by the clients will be hashed out to all servers - > including the new ones. > > Just for my information - did you add the extra servers for capacity / > redundancy / performance increases? > > James Burnash, Unix Engineering > > -----Original Message----- > From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto: > gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Roland Rabben > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:37 AM > To: gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: Re: Adding new storage nodes to existing GlusterFS > network > > Anyone who know this? > > Regards > Roland Rabben > > 2010/9/21 Roland Rabben <roland at jotta.no> > > > Hi, this is probably a newbee question, but here goes. > > > > I am adding two new servers to my existing GlusterFS network and I am > > wondering what the correct procedure is. > > I am using a Distributed / Replicated setup. My existing network has > > two servers. > > > > Do I need to take down the whole network with client and servers? > > Can I just unmount the client, update the client config file and then > > mount the client again with the new servers? > > Will new files be written to the new servers only, or both the new and > old? > > > > Best regards > > > > Roland Rabben > > Founder & CEO Jotta AS > > Cell: +47 90 85 85 39 > > Phone: +47 21 04 29 00 > > Email: roland at jotta.no > > > > > > -- > Roland Rabben > Founder & CEO Jotta AS > Cell: +47 90 85 85 39 > Phone: +47 21 04 29 00 > Email: roland at jotta.no > > > DISCLAIMER: > This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the > addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or > confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this > e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or > copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this in error, please immediately notify me and > permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout > thereof. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or > error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or > omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail > transmission. > NOTICE REGARDING PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY Knight Capital Group may, at > its discretion, monitor and review the content of all e-mail communications. > http://www.knight.com > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Roland Rabben Founder & CEO Jotta AS Cell: +47 90 85 85 39 Phone: +47 21 04 29 00 Email: roland at jotta.no _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
