<div dir="ltr"><div>Ok, good to hear. </div><div><br></div><div>will there be any impact in listing folder and files?.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Nithya Balachandran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nbalacha@redhat.com" target="_blank">nbalacha@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 4 April 2017 at 12:33, Amudhan P <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amudhan83@gmail.com" target="_blank">amudhan83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have a query on rebalancing.</div><div><br></div><div>let's consider following is my folder hierarchy.</div><div><br></div><div>parent1-fol (parent folder)<br></div><div> |_ </div><div> class-fol-1 ( 1 st level subfolder)</div><div> |_ </div><div> A ( 2 nd level subfolder)</div><div> |_</div> childfol-1 (child folder created every time before writing files)<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now, I have a running cluster with 3.10.1 with disperse volume and I am planning to expand cluster by adding bricks.</div><div><br></div><div>will there be a problem using newly added bricks without doing a "rebalance fix layout" other than existing files cannot be rebalanced to new brick and files created under existing folder will not go to new brick?.</div><div><br></div><div>I tested above case in my test setup and observed files created under new folder goes to new brick. and I don't see any issue on listing files and folder.</div><div><br></div><div>so, My case is we create child folder every time before creating files.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The reason to avoid rebalance is I have more than 10000 folders across 1080 bricks. so triggering rebalance will take a long time and in my previous expansion in 3.7 was not able to access some folders randomly until fix layout completes.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>It sounds like you will not need to run a rebalance or fix-layout for this. It should work fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Nithya</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><span class="m_1920657366986560561HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Amudhan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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