[Gluster-users] While running a rebalance, what does the metric "layout" represent

[Burnash, James]

Could one of the devs please answer this if at all possible? I've googled extensively and found no explanation, and I have semi-hostile users breathing down my neck while the rebalance of 15TB is taking place ...

James Burnash, Unix Engineering
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From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Burnash, James
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 2:17 PM
To: gluster-users
Subject: [Gluster-users] While running a rebalance, what does the metric "layout" represent

Hello.

So, I've successfully migrated (with a short service outage) my GlusterFS 3.1.1 storage server from Distributed with one server to Distributed-Replicate with two servers, and all is (apparently) running well.

I've invoked:

	gluster volume rebalance pfs-rw1 start

... and the rebalance reported that it started successfully.

While monitoring it, the output of:

	gluster volume rebalance pfs-rw1 status

gives something similar to:

	rebalance step 1: layout fix in progress: fixed layout 4865

What does the number (in this case) 4865 represent, and what exactly does "layout" refer to?

Thanks,

James Burnash, Unix Engineering



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