[Gluster-users] Adding volumes - How redistribute existing data

[Amar Tumballi]

Hi Michael,

Sorry for the confusion on 'scale-n-defrag.sh' script.

To make sure the script does defrag, you need to have two options set in
distribute volume.

'option unhashed-sticky-bit on'
'option lookup-unhashed on'

Without these options it will not move the data files in backend. If you
don't want to bring down the current mount point to run the defrag, you can
have another mount point with changed volume file, and run defrag over it.

Let us know if you have any more questions regarding defrag process.

Regards,
Amar

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Moore, Michael
<Michael.Moore at lifetech.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I am trying to add several new backend volumes to an existing GlusterFS
> setup.  I am running GlusterFS 3.0.4 using the distribute translator.  I've
> tried running the "scale-n-defrag.sh" script to redistribute the data across
> the additional volumes, but after running for a significant time, nothing
> was significantly redistributed.  What are the proper steps to do to
> redistribute the data?  Do I need to clean up the links GlusterFS makes on
> the backends before I run scale-n-defrag?
>
>   I am running GlusterFS 3.0.4 on top of CentOS 5.4.  This is not running
> GlusterSP.
>