[Gluster-devel] EHT / DHT

[Jan H Holtzhausen]

So in a distributed cluster, the GFID tells all bricks what a files 
preceding directory structure looks like?
Where the physical file is saved is a function of the filename ONLY.
Therefore My requirement should be met by default, or am I being dense?

BR
Jan



On 2014/11/25, 8:15 PM, "Shyam" <srangana at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 11/25/2014 03:11 PM, Jan H Holtzhausen wrote:
>> STILL doesn’t work … exact same file ends up on 2 different bricks …
>> I must be missing something.
>> All I need is for:
>> /directory1/subdirectory2/foo
>> And
>> /directory2/subdirectoryaaa999/foo
>>
>>
>> To end up on the same brick….
>
>This is not possible is what I was attempting to state in the previous 
>mail. The regex filter is not for this purpose.
>
>The hash is always based on the name of the file, but the location is 
>based on the distribution/layout of the directory, which is different 
>for each directory based on its GFID.
>
>So there are no options in the code to enable what you seek at present.
>
>Why is this needed?
>
>Shyam