[Gluster-users] Files lost after DHT expansion!

[mki-glusterfs at mozone.net]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:59:56AM +1200, m.c.wilkins at massey.ac.nz wrote:
> > someone mentioned adding "option lookup-unhashed on".  So I tried that
> > and then went through and manually stat()ed each file that was 
> > originally on the filesystem and only then did the files reappear.  I
> > can't imagine what one would do if there were several million files on
> > the filesystem prior to an expansion?
> 
> i believe you do, but normally one does the stat'ing by doing a
>    ls -lR <mnt point> > /dev/null

Well that wouldn't be so bad if it actually worked :)  My attempts at any
file access (either via ls -lR or similar) failed to yield the lost
files.

Mohan