[Gluster-users] Fw: Deletion of old CHANGELOG files in .glusterfs/changelogs

[Amar Tumballi]

> Local Time: March 31, 2017 11:22 PM
> UTC Time: March 31, 2017 9:22 PM
> From: mabi at protonmail.ch
> To: Gluster Users <gluster-users at gluster.org> <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using geo-replication since now over a year on my 3.7.20 GlusterFS
> volumes and noticed that the CHANGELOG.<TIMESTAMP> in the
> .glusterfs/changelogs directory of a brick never get deleted. I have for
> example over 120k files in one of these directories and it is growing
> constantly.
>
> So my question, does GlusterFS have any mechanism to automatically delete
> old and processed CHANGELOG files? If not is it safe to delete them
> manually?
>
>
> I will try to answer the question, I'm not an expert in geo-replication,
> So I could be wrong here. I think GlusterFS won't delete the changelogs
> automatically, reason being geo-replication is not the author of
> changelogs, it is just a consumer any other application could use
> changelogs.
>


+1 for the reasoning.


>
> You can safely delete* *all processed** changelogs from actual changelogs
> directory and geo-replication directory. You can look into the stime set as
> the extended attribute on the root to see the time which geo-replication
> last synced.
>
>
If georep is the only consumer, you can use Aravinda's tool
<https://github.com/aravindavk/archive_gluster_changelogs>to move the files
to another dir, and delete them.

Regards,
Amar
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