Em Sexta-feira 03 Junho 2011, ?s 16:42:37, mki-glusterfs at mozone.net escreveu: > Hi > > How does one go about expanding a volume that consists of a distribute > -replicate set of machines in 3.0.6? The setup consists of 4 pairs > of machines, with 3 bricks per machine. I need to add an additional 5 > pair of machines (15 bricks) to the volume, but I don't understand > what's required per se. There are currently 4 client machines mounting > the volume using the ip.of.first.backend:/volume syntax in fstab where > the first backend server provides the general volume to the clients. > > Looking at some of the past mailing list chatter, it seems > scale-n-defrag.sh is what I need, but it's unclear as to how to go about > this without distruption to services on the other clients. If I bring up > a new client server, copy the vol file and mount that vol using that > volfile temporarily to run the defrag, do I have to make all the existing > clients also mount that exact same vol file while this is running? Or can > they keep running on their old volfile for the duration of the defrag? > The last time I tried modifying the vol file by even 1 byte, on the > backend that was serving it up, the clients refused to mount it, so not > sure how that's supposed to work in this case? > > Can someone please shed some light into what the correct process to go > about this is? > > Thanks much. > > Mohan Hi Mohan. is upgrading to newer versions an option for you? If yes, then i would look into it *before* trying scale-n-defrag.sh. Operations like this got much easier from 3.1 and onwards. Good luck.
