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

Dan Parsons dparsons at nyip.net
Tue Jan 13 18:12:18 UTC 2009


Nevermind, the conf files I put up were for my dht problem, from which  
I stripped out my unify stuff (I was reducing conf file complexity to  
focus on the dht problem). I'll get back to this once I make dht work.


Dan Parsons


On Jan 13, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Dan Parsons wrote:

> 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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