Hi, > > I have a question. I am on RHS 2.0 Update 4 (will soon go to 2.1 when it's > out) and I have a distributed volume (across 7 nodes) where a fair amount > of directory moves take place (or directory renames). AFAIK this will most > likely give new hash values and so all data needs to be moved around the > pool. Gluster does not do this immediately, but instead creates a link from > the new location to the old location. > > Questions: > 1. Is there a gluster command to investigate the amount of these links > (How "dirty" is my volume) > 2. What command to I use to fix this. I think a "simple" rebalance would > do it. > > I would like to create a cron job that checks the amount of links and, if > above a certain level, it will do a rebalance. Alternatively I could do a > fixed periodic rebalance. And I have as yet no idea on what level (what > amount of found links) a rebalance is necessary. > > Any thoughts, hints, etc? > > Fred > > Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn?t believing. It?s where belief > stops, because it isn?t needed any more.. (Terry Pratchett) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130902/6c2d9582/attachment.html>
