On 04/25/2013 12:57 AM, Hans Lambermont wrote: > Hi glusterfs users, > > For a replicated volume with a brick pair nearly full and several fresh > and empty bricks just added do you think the following would work ? > > Walk the nearly-full brick filesystem to find files on it. Use this list > to move them one by one away from the glusterfs volume to temp space, > and then move them back in. > I'm hoping this achieves a brick-targetted rebalance. > > Would this work ? This should normally work. > > Reason i'm looking into this solution is that a regular rebalance just > takes too long. Long as in 100+ days. > > Do you know of other alternatives ? Or to make rebalance start > rebalancing files right away ? What is the size of your volume? Can you please provide details of the glusterfs version and the command that was issued for rebalancing? Thanks, Vijay
