[Gluster-devel] Questions on dht rebalance

[Anand Avati]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Muralidhar Balcha <muralidharb at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> I have couple of questions on rebalance functionality
> 1. When I ran rebalancing command, the gluster daemon that is responsible
> for migrating data is terminating itself in the middle of the data
> migration. I may be missing something. How do I make the daemon wait until
> the data migration is complete.
>

Under normal circumstances, the rebalance daemon terminates when it
believes it has completed transferring all files it is supposed to. Do you
have any logs with more details?


> 2. This question may not be related to rebalance adding or removing a
> brick from a volume. If I add a new brick to a volume that is in use, how
> do existing clients realize the new brick? Is there a notification
> mechanism that each client refreshes their client volinfo?
>
>

Yes, clients are polling w/ glusterd waiting for config changes, and will
swap to a new xlator graph at run time if necessary.

Avati
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