[Gluster-devel] erroneous double disk space display in 'df'?

Krishna Srinivas krishna at zresearch.com
Tue Jan 13 11:16:35 UTC 2009


Dan,
Are you using same disk for both dht and stripe at the back end? i.e
create two directories on the disk and export, use one for dht and one
for stripe?
Can you mail the vol files?
Krishna

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Dan Parsons <dparsons at nyip.net> wrote:
> I'm following the directions on this page:
>
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Advanced_Striping_with_GlusterFS_2.0
>
> Following the above directions, you have a dht volume and a stripe volume
> joined together via unify. When mounting that unify volume, df reports twice
> the actual available capacity. If I remove one of the dht/stripe volumes
> from the unify volume, df reports normal disk usage. So, I can understand
> why this is happening (gluster sees two separate volumes) but as the same
> group of servers host the dht & stripe volumes, the actual space is half
> what gluster thinks it is. Is this the intended behavior?
>
> My end-goal here is to be able to have some files dht'd and some striped.
> This seems to be the best way to do it, if I'm wrong please let me know.
>
>
> Dan Parsons
>
>
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