copy a file to glusterfs , and you'll find the file size much bigger! # gluster --version glusterfs 3.4.0 built on Aug 6 2013 11:17:07 1. Create a file `dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/20Gfile bs=1G count=20` 2. Copy the file to mount point of glusterfs `cp /data/20Gfile /mnt/stripe/` 3. The use ls/du/md5sum to see the file size and file hash,you will see many diff. ---------- # du -sh /data/20Gfile /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile /mnt/stripe/20Gfile 20G /data/20Gfile (Source file) 20G /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile (Real Storage Dir) 160G /mnt/stripe/20Gfile (Mount Gluster Dir) ---------- # ls -l /data/20Gfile /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile /mnt/stripe/20Gfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21474836480 Aug 14 16:25 /data/20Gfile -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 21473918976 Aug 14 16:32 /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21474836480 Aug 14 16:32 /mnt/stripe/20Gfile ---------- # md5sum /data/20Gfile /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile /mnt/stripe/20Gfile 24eeb2845cbfda238b78fa165c21607d /data/20Gfile f958a2de2f03f07a374300ae565f6d29 /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile 24eeb2845cbfda238b78fa165c21607d /mnt/stripe/20Gfile ---------- The file hash of /data/glusterfs/stripe/20Gfile on each node are not same too. ---------- Are they should same as each other? Why not the file split into 8 node? Info: Linux agent25.higkoo.org 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 gluster volume create stripe stripe 8 agent{25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32}.higkoo.org:/data/glusterfs/stripe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130814/51d080e4/attachment.html>