On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Ankireddypalle Reddy <areddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pranith, > > Thanks for getting back on this. I am trying to see how > gfid can be generated programmatically. Given a file name how do we generate > gfid for it. I was reading some of the email threads about it where it was > mentioned that gfid is generated based upon parent directory gfid and the > file name. Given a same parent gfid and file name do we always end up with > the same gfid. You're probably confusing the hash as generated for the elastic hash algorithm in DHT, with UUID. That is a combination of I always thought that the GFID was a UUID, which was randomly generated. (The random UUID might be being modified a little to allow some leeway with directory listing, IIRC). Adding gluster-devel to get more eyes on this. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > ram > > > > From: Pranith Kumar Karampuri [mailto:pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 12:58 PM > To: Ankireddypalle Reddy > Cc: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: gfid generation > > > > Sorry, didn't understand the question. Are you saying give a file on gluster > how to get gfid of the file? > > #getfattr -d -m. -e hex /path/to/file shows it > > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Ankireddypalle Reddy <areddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Is the mapping from file name to gfid an idempotent operation. If > so please point me to the function that does this. > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Ram > > ***************************Legal Disclaimer*************************** > > "This communication may contain confidential and privileged material for the > > sole use of the intended recipient. Any unauthorized review, use or > distribution > > by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received the message by > mistake, > > please advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you." > > ********************************************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > -- > > Pranith > > ***************************Legal Disclaimer*************************** > "This communication may contain confidential and privileged material for the > sole use of the intended recipient. Any unauthorized review, use or > distribution > by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received the message by > mistake, > please advise the sender by reply email and delete the message. Thank you." > ********************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
