[Gluster-users] Exlcude subdirectories from AFR

[Basavanagowda Kanur]

Keith,

Replies inline.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com>wrote:

> in this case, the namespace brick should be AFR'ed then correct?


namespace volume can be anything (depending on your needs). namespace
contains only directory entries and no other data.


> would that break things if log files are on some clients and not others?


no. mount-point will show all the files, irrespective of whether they are
scheduled to AFR or direct posix subvolume .


>
>
> At 08:57 PM 11/15/2008, Basavanagowda Kanur wrote:
>
>> Claudiu,
>>  You can use unify over afr. And use switch translator to schedule your
>> log files to a subvolume which does not replicate (without afr) and rest of
>> the files to afr.
>>
>> volume unify
>>  type cluster/unify
>>  option scheduler switch
>>  option switch.case <pattern>:<non-replicated-subvolume>;*:<afr-subvolume>
>>  option namespace <namespace>
>>  subvoumes <non-replicated-subvolume> <afr-subvolume>
>> end-volume
>>
>> --
>> gowda
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:32 PM, claudiu ciurdariu <<mailto:
>> clauc_007 at yahoo.com>clauc_007 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to implement AFR across 2 servers and I was wondering if there
>> is any option that would allow me to exclude some subdirectories from
>> replicating each other. Say I have a directory structure like this:
>>
>> /var/www/domain1/htdocs
>> /var/www/domain1/logs
>> /var/www/domain2/htdocs
>> /var/www/domain2/logs
>> ....
>>
>> I want to AFR /var/www across the 2 servers, but exclude the logs
>> directories from replication. Is there any translator that would help me
>> achieve that?
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Claudiu
>>
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