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

[Matt Hodson]

Craig,
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On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Craig Carl wrote:

> Matt -
>    A couple of questions -
>
> What is your volume config? (`gluster volume info all`)

gluster> volume info all

Volume Name: gs-test
Type: Distribute
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 2
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: 172.16.1.76:/exp1
Brick2: 172.16.2.117:/exp2

> What is the hardware config for each storage server?

brick 1 = 141GB
brick 2 = 143GB

> What command did you run to create the test data?

#perl -e 'print rand while 1' > y.out &

> What process is still writing to the file?

same one as above.

>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
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>
> From: "Matt Hodson" <matth at geospiza.com>
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Cc: "Jeff Kozlowski" <jeff at genesifter.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 9, 2010 10:46:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] filling gluster cluster with large file  
> doesn't        crash the system?!
>
> 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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