2016-07-19 9:23 GMT+02:00 Krutika Dhananjay <kdhananj@xxxxxxxxxx>: > No. Note that all files and directories under /.shard are like normal files > and directories to the file-system, it is just > shard translator that has a special way of interpreting this layout of > files. What this means is that each file and directory at and under /.shard > will need to have its own unique gfid. In other words, for this layout you > suggested: > > /.shard/d218cd1c-4bd9-40d7-9810-86b3f7932509/d218cd1c-4bd9-40d7-9810-86b3f7932509.1 > > the sub-directory /.shard/d218cd1c-4bd9-40d7-9810-86b3f7932509/ will not > have the gfid d218cd1c-4bd9-40d7-9810-86b3f7932509 because this is already > assigned to the original file that was sharded based on whose gfid we are > naming the rest of the shards. This means the subdir will have a new gfid > assigned to it, as will the file d218cd1c-4bd9-40d7-9810-86b3f7932509.1. > Does that make sense? Ok, so, even the directory name must be unique and is not possible to have a directory that has the same gfid as a file. _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users