[Gluster-users] Copy files from brick folders.

[Jon Tegner]

On 07/12/13 18:00, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> If there is no write activity (either application driven or gluster's 
> maintenance operations like self-heal, rebalance), then reading from 
> the bricks might be fine. Since these operations are asynchronous in 
> nature and since most applications are not written to be aware of the 
> implications of loose consistency, the recommended method is to 
> perform all reads through a gluster client stack. 
This seems very reasonable. But what about the case where a new 
installation of gluster is supposed to "incorporate" files already 
present at the mount points, how to "bring them in" under gluster?

Regards,

/jon