On 6/4/12 4:05 AM, Jacques du Rand wrote: > HI Guys > This all applies to Gluster3.3 > > I love gluster but I'm having some difficulties understanding some > things. > > 1.Replication(with existing data): > Two servers in simple single brick replication. ie 1 volume (testvol) > -server1:/data/ && server2:/data/ > -server1 has a few millions files in the /data dir > -server2 has a no files in /data dir > > So after i created the testvol and started the volume > QUESTION (1): Do i need to mount each volume on the servers like so > ? If yes why ? > ---> on server1: mount -t gluster 127.0.0.1:/testvol /mnt/gfstest > ---> on server2: mount -t gluster 127.0.0.1:/testvol /mnt/gfstest Only if you want to access the files within the volume on the two servers which have the bricks on them. > > CLIENT: > Then I mount the client: > mount server-1-ip:/testvol /mnt/gfstest > > Question(2) : > I only see files from server2 ??? Probably hit and miss what you see, since your bricks are not consistent. > > Question (3) > Whenever I'm writing/updating/working with the files on the SERVER i > should ALWAYS do it via the (local mount )/mnt/gfstest. I should never > work with files directly in the bricks /data ?? Correct - Gluster can't keep track of writes if you don't do it through the glusterfs mount point. > > Question (4.1) > -Whats the best-practise to sync existing "data" ? You will need to force a manual self-heal and see if that copies all the data over to the other brick. find /mnt/gfstest -noleaf -print0 | xargs --null stat>/dev/null > > Question (4.2) > -Is it safe to create a brick in a directory that already has files in > it ? As long as you force a self-heal on it before you use it. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120604/71244dbf/attachment.htm>
