[Gluster-devel] EHT / DHT
Jan H Holtzhausen
janh at holtztech.info
Tue Nov 25 20:59:17 UTC 2014
As to the why.
Filesystem cache hits.
Files with the same name tend to be the same files.
Regards
Jan
On 2014/11/25, 8:42 PM, "Jan H Holtzhausen" <janh at holtztech.info> wrote:
>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
>
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