The file gets renamed on the distribute subvolume where it's stored and the subvolume where the new hash points gets a "sticky pointer" that points to where the file actually resides. On 10/13/2012 07:52 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > In a distributed volume (glusterfs 3.3), files within a directory are > assigned to a brick by a hash of their filename, correct? > > So what happens if you do "mv foo bar"? Does the file get copied to another > brick? Is this no longer an atomic operation? > > Thanks, > > Brian. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users