[Gluster-users] Expanding a Volume with GlusterSP

[Drew Morris]

Thanks,

This helps a lot... if we move off of GlusterSP and use GlusterFS (which it 
looks like we might have to do since SP doesn't give you root access) then I 
can attempt this method. Any advice for how to re-balance the volume once 
this is done? Is there a command I need to call?

Thanks,

Drew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bala.JA" <bala at gluster.com>
To: "Drew Morris" <drew at drewmorris.com>
Cc: <gluster-users at gluster.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Expanding a Volume with GlusterSP


>
> Hi Drew,
>
> Gluster Platform 3.0.X doesn't have straight forward way for volume 
> expansion. Its required to do manual change in files,
>
> 1. /GLUSTER/volumes.xml on all servers and /GLUSTER/global-volumes.xml 
> file in server1.
> 2. Creating volume exports directory under data partition mount 
> points(/exports/DISKPARTITION/) in new servers.
> 3. Editing /etc/glusterfs/*VOLUME*.vol files in all servers and have same 
> copy in new servers.
>
> All the above steps should be done when the volume is offline.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Regards,
> Bala
>
>
> Drew Morris wrote:
>> I have recently setup GlusterSP and I was able to get it up and running 
>> with
>> 2 machines (mirrored) as a single volume.
>>
>> Adding additional nodes to the cluster seemed easy enough and I have 
>> added 2
>> more nodes but I cannot seem to add them to my existing volume. Does 
>> anyone
>> have any instructions for how to expand a pre-existing mirrored volume 
>> and
>> add additional capacity to it? The user interface does not seem to let 
>> you
>> expand a volume dynamically. I know there is a way to do this in the 
>> standard
>> GlusterFS but I don't remember the process and I think it involved manual
>> processes and some scripts for re-balancing the data. Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Drew
>>
>>
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