[Gluster-users] DHT with AFR

[Hiren Joshi]

If I do this on a client that's solely dedicated to copying out and in
again, will there be a performance hit on all the other clients using
it?

I really like the simplicity of glusterfs, hats off to the dev guys! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Zhou [mailto:kirbyzhou at sohu-rd.com] 
> Sent: 15 July 2009 16:45
> To: Hiren Joshi; 'Vikas Gorur'
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: RE: [Gluster-users] DHT with AFR
> 
> AFAIK, There is no method to redistribute your already stored 
> files except
> copy out then copy in again.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hiren Joshi [mailto:josh at moonfruit.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:52 PM
> To: Vikas Gorur
> Cc: Kirby Zhou; gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: RE: [Gluster-users] DHT with AFR
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vikas Gorur [mailto:vikas at gluster.com] 
> > Sent: 15 July 2009 09:01
> > To: Hiren Joshi
> > Cc: Kirby Zhou; gluster-users at gluster.org
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] DHT with AFR
> > 
> > 
> > ----- "Hiren Joshi" <josh at moonfruit.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > My thinking is both on the client so:
> > > I AFR my nodes.
> > > I then DHT my AFR bricks.
> > > I then mount the DHT vols.
> > >  
> > > Or would I get better performance the other way around?
> > 
> > DHT over AFR'd pairs is the configuration you want. You can
> > then add another AFR pair whenever you want to scale up.
> 
> When I add another pair, is there a way of re-distributing the data
> evenly? Will this have a big performance hit?
> 
> > 
> > Vikas
> > --
> > Engineer - Gluster
> > 
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