[Gluster-devel] About DHT layout

Tahereh Fattahi t28.fattahi at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 16:47:12 UTC 2017


Thanks a lot, but I need more details. Can you tell me exactly which
function assigns the hash to directories on bricks? at the end of
dht_function the dht_layout->list does not have the value of hash, so where
this assignment is done?

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Ankit Raj <anraj at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Tahereh Fattahi <t28.fattahi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>
>     DHT creates directories on all the bricks in the volume. And, their
> range varies from 00000000 to  0xffffffff and and each brick is assigned a
> specific subset of this range. Also, the directory creation and the
>    setting of layout is part of mkdir operation.
>
> I want to know when and where the layout of a directory is created?
>>
>
>
>> I read more and the code of dht_mkdir and the functions were called  in
>> this function but I could not find the primary part (setting the list field
>> in dht_layout structure), can anyone help me?
>>
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