[Gluster-users] Disastrous performance with rsync to mounted Gluster volume.

[Ernie Dunbar]

On 2015-04-23 18:10, Joe Julian wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 04:41 PM, Ernie Dunbar wrote:
>> On 2015-04-23 12:58, Ben Turner wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> +1, lets nuke everything and start from a known good.  Those error
>>> messages make me think something is really wrong with how we are
>>> copying the data.  Gluster does NFS by default so you shouldn't have
>>> have to reconfigure anything after you recreate the volume.
>>> 
>> 
>> Okay... this is a silly question. How do I do that? Deleting the 
>> volume doesn't affect the files in the underlying filesystem, and I 
>> get the impression that trying to delete the files in the underlying 
>> filesystem without shutting down or deleting the volume would result 
>> in Gluster trying to write the files back where they "belong".
>> 
>> Should I stop the volume, delete it, then delete the files and start 
>> from scratch, re-creating the volume?
> 
> That's what I would do.
> 

Well, apparently removing the .glusterfs directory from the brick is an 
exceptionally bad thing, and breaks gluster completely, rendering it 
inoperable. I'm going to have to post another thread about how to fix 
this mess now.