[Gluster-devel] Migration from Unify to DHT

[Anand Avati]

we will be putting up a migration document (from unify) on the wiki in
the DHT section.

avati

2008/11/17 NovA <av.nova at gmail.com>:
> Hello everybody!
>
> As 1.4 release is approaching I'm preparing migration from 1.3. I hope
> that DHT could increase performance a lot for our 24-nodes computing
> cluster. Now unify really slows down file IO if there are hundreds of
> files in a dir...
> What is the simplest way for switching from unify to DHT? As I
> understand, ideally one should recreate glusterfs volumes from scratch
> to initialize new DHT file scheduling. But it could be problematic in
> our case... What will happen if I start new glusterFS with DHT over
> existing backends with thousands of files distributed by unify? Can it
> reschedule files during self-healing process or something like that?
> Or will it just stuck or even corrupt data?
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>
> Best regards,
>  Andrey
>
>
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