I reply to myself to share the experience. BoxA had an already populated /export folder. I installed BoxB and gluster 3.2 on both boxes. I created a replicated volume I mounted this volume from a client On the client cd /mountpoint and then du Box B /export started to populate Thank you KL > will do > thx a lot > K >> If its setup as replicate, then just do what I suggested, but from a >> client. It should trigger the replicate >> >> >> >> From: Karim Latouche<klatouche at digitalchocolate.com> >> >> To: gluster-users at gluster.org >> >> Date: 05/18/2011 08:46 AM >> >> Subject: Re: creating a volume with an already >> populated folder >> >> Sent by: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi Greg >> >> Thanks for your answer. >> Actually it more a server issue. >> I have box A and BoxB each of them export /export folder >> I have around 200Gigs of file on BoxA in /export and I was hopping that >> creating a volume exporting /export will trigger repilication on Box B. >> It looks like it doesn't. >> >> Cheers >> >> K >>> So... don't know that I should share this will all since its not >>> suggested... but all you have to do is stat all of the files. If you >>> generate a file list on the storage box and then take that list to the >>> client that can't see them, and run stat on each file it should find >>> them >>> all. >>> >>> Depending on your data size it might not be worth the effort. >>> >>> -greg >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
