[Gluster-users] 3.5 replication to local filesystem?

[M S Vishwanath Bhat]

On 10/09/14 18:43, Danny Sauer wrote:
> With the previous version of Gluster, I was able to use geo-replication to
> asynchronously synchronize a gluster volume to a local directory.  My
> application uses a large number of small files, and as everyone knows,
> Gluster's not great for that.  But there are features that I need which
> Gluster's good at, so this setup (two systems with a regular replicated-bricks
> volume, and then three geo-replicated systems replicating to a local directory)
> worked well.
>
> With 3.5, though, I no longer seem to be able to just specify a local path to
> replicate to; it seems to only want to accept a second volume.  The
> documentation isn't quite complete on the new geo-replication, and I haven't
> quite gotten a handle on the source code to just figure it out yet.  Has the
> syntax changed in a way that I'm not properly guessing, or is this no longer
> supported?
 From the glusterfs-3.5, the destination has to be a gluster volume. 
geo-replication to local directory is not supported.

AFAIK this was done because the new geo-rep syncs the data using gfid. 
Since local file systems don't have gfid, the destination has to be a 
volume.

Best Regards,
Vishwanath

>
> Thanks,
> Danny
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