[Gluster-users] filling gluster cluster with large file doesn't crash the system?!

[Matt Hodson]

approx 141GB+143GB=283 avail to the cluster.  see below.

Brick #1 (main gluster server)
matth at meathouse|11:01:56>
$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       141G   15G  119G  12% /


Brick #2 (slave)
[root at localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       143G  143G     0 100% /
/dev/hda1              99M   13M   82M  13% /boot
tmpfs                 470M     0  470M   0% /dev/shm
172.16.1.76:/gs-test  283G  158G  119G  58% /mnt/gluster

-matt

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Matt Hodson
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On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Luis E. Cerezo wrote:

> what's the size of the storage bricks?
>
>
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Matt Hodson wrote:
>
>> I should also note that on this non-production test rig the block  
>> size on both bricks is 1KB (1024) so the theoretical file size  
>> limit is 16GB.  so how then did i get a file of 200GB?
>> -matt
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Matt Hodson wrote:
>>
>>> craig et al,
>>>
>>> I have a 2 brick distributed 283GB gluster cluster on CentoOS 5.  
>>> we nfs mounted the cluster from a 3rd machine and wrote random  
>>> junk to a file. i watched the file grow to 200GB on the cluster  
>>> when it appeared to stop. however the machine writing to the file  
>>> still lists the file as growing. it's now at over 320GB. what's  
>>> going on?
>>>
>>> -matt
>>>
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>>> Matt Hodson
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>>> http://www.geospiza.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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