[Gluster-devel] Question about file copy through libgfapi

[John Mark Walker]

Thanks, Giacomo. I'm sending this to the gluster-devel list - it's an interesting question. Basically, can we do server-only operations? 

-JM 

----- Original Message -----

> Hello,

> I am currently using GlusterFS version 3.5 with two bricks. What I currently
> do is mounting the whole storage in some Linux clients (RedHat) through
> fuse.glusterfs that (I think) uses NFS in the background.
> What I would like to do is copying a file from a directory to another one in
> the storage in the quickest way. Using a "cp file1 file2" from my RedHat
> client is not the best option because the data flows from the storage to my
> RedHat client through the network and then back to the storage. I would like
> instead to avoid this waste of time and copy the file directly from the 1st
> directory to the 2nd one. So, in a nutshell, I would like to have file1 ->
> file2 , instead of file1 -> RedHatclient -> file2
> Do you think is it possible, for example using libgfapi? Any example to show
> me?
> Thank you in advance and best regards,

> Giacomo Fazio
> IT Engineer

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