[Gluster-users] Adding new storage nodes to existing GlusterFS network

[Roland Rabben]

Hi James,
thanks for the answer I will try this tomorrow. I am adding the new servers
for capacity increase.

Do you have any idea how to rebalance old files?

Regards
Roland Rabben

2010/9/22 Burnash, James <jburnash at knight.com>

> Hi Roland.
>
> The short answer is - I'm not sure because I'm in the midst of doing this
> myself, but my setup is just Replicated.
>
> I believe that you can do what you said with the clients because they are
> the only entities with knowledge of what servers are in the backend, so
> adding new servers to their configs and restarting those clients should work
> just fine, assuming you get the replication/distributed part of their
> configs correct.
>
> The one thing is, from what I understand, no rebalancing of old files will
> take place on the new servers automatically - that's a manual procedure -
> but any new files written by the clients will be hashed out to all servers -
> including the new ones.
>
> Just for my information - did you add the extra servers for capacity /
> redundancy / performance increases?
>
> James Burnash, Unix Engineering
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:
> gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Roland Rabben
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:37 AM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Adding new storage nodes to existing GlusterFS
> network
>
> Anyone who know this?
>
> Regards
> Roland Rabben
>
> 2010/9/21 Roland Rabben <roland at jotta.no>
>
> > Hi, this is probably a newbee question, but here goes.
> >
> > I am adding two new servers to my existing GlusterFS network and I am
> > wondering what the correct procedure is.
> > I am using a Distributed / Replicated setup. My existing network has
> > two servers.
> >
> > Do I need to take down the whole network with client and servers?
> > Can I just unmount the client, update the client config file and then
> > mount the client again with the new servers?
> > Will new files be written to the new servers only, or both the new and
> old?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Roland Rabben
> > Founder & CEO Jotta AS
> > Cell: +47 90 85 85 39
> > Phone: +47 21 04 29 00
> > Email: roland at jotta.no
> >
>
>
>
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