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

Dan Parsons dparsons at nyip.net
Tue Jan 13 18:07:43 UTC 2009


Using the same disk, yes, but two separate directories. I put the conf  
files in my original email to the list.


Dan Parsons


On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:16 AM, Krishna Srinivas wrote:

> 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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