[Gluster-devel] Need advice re some major issues with glusterfind

[Vijay Bellur]

On Friday 23 October 2015 03:30 PM, Kotresh Hiremath Ravishankar wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> You are welcome and happy to help you!
>
> You can delete the consumed changelogs safely if there is only one glusterfind session
> for your gluster volume. But if you have multiple glusterfind sessions which are started
> at time gap of let's say two days.
>
> 1st-day  : session1   ----- For Purpose 1
> 2nd-day  : session1
> 3rd-day  : session1
>             session2 (started)  ----- For Purpose 2
>
> Above, if you had deleted changelogs of Day-1 and Day-2 when session 2 is started, it needs
> to crawl the entire filesystem which defeats the purpose of glusterfind and is slower.
> That's the reason I said deleting changelogs is not recommended. If you don't have use cases
> of above kind, you can delete changelogs.
>
>

or maybe archive the old changelogs so that they can be re-used in case 
of need later.

Regards,
Vijay