[Gluster-devel] df -kh not reporting correct value, AFR

Matt Paine matt at mattsoftware.com
Fri Jul 13 05:29:42 UTC 2007


Sorry, forwarding to the list - i'm good at just hitting reply and not 
reply to all :/




> DeeDee Park wrote:
> 
>> Here is a thought for a simple fix on AFR, if I have say 10 bricks, 
>> and say AFR *:2, then use
>> a modulus of the available bricks, so you would still use available 
>> bricks. - eg copy set 1 could
>> go to 1,3,5,7,9 and copy set 2 could go to the 2,4,6,8, or 10th listed 
>> brick in the subvolume
>> command.
> 
> 
> 
> Sounds like what you are trying to do can be achieved with the current 
> xlators - but doing the afr over unified bricks. Personally i think that 
> the afr doesn't need to do complicated scheduling, when unify can do 
> that for you......
> 
> 
> e.g. unify server 1,3,5,7,9 and 2,4,6,8,10 - then afr *:2 over them
> 
> Might be slightly not what your after, but you can get more complicated 
> than that if you wish :)
> 
> 
> If your after ultra redundancy, just afr them altogether and afr *:10 :)
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Matt.
> 







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