[Gluster-users] Adding new storage nodes to existing GlusterFS network

[Burnash, James]

Hi Roland.

The short answer is - I'm not sure because I'm in the midst of doing this myself, but my setup is just Replicated.

I believe that you can do what you said with the clients because they are the only entities with knowledge of what servers are in the backend, so adding new servers to their configs and restarting those clients should work just fine, assuming you get the replication/distributed part of their configs correct.

The one thing is, from what I understand, no rebalancing of old files will take place on the new servers automatically - that's a manual procedure - but any new files written by the clients will be hashed out to all servers - including the new ones.

Just for my information - did you add the extra servers for capacity / redundancy / performance increases?

James Burnash, Unix Engineering

-----Original Message-----
From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Roland Rabben
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:37 AM
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Adding new storage nodes to existing GlusterFS network

Anyone who know this?

Regards
Roland Rabben

2010/9/21 Roland Rabben <roland at jotta.no>

> Hi, this is probably a newbee question, but here goes.
>
> I am adding two new servers to my existing GlusterFS network and I am 
> wondering what the correct procedure is.
> I am using a Distributed / Replicated setup. My existing network has 
> two servers.
>
> Do I need to take down the whole network with client and servers?
> Can I just unmount the client, update the client config file and then 
> mount the client again with the new servers?
> Will new files be written to the new servers only, or both the new and old?
>
> Best regards
>
> Roland Rabben
> Founder & CEO Jotta AS
> Cell: +47 90 85 85 39
> Phone: +47 21 04 29 00
> Email: roland at jotta.no
>



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Roland Rabben
Founder & CEO Jotta AS
Cell: +47 90 85 85 39
Phone: +47 21 04 29 00
Email: roland at jotta.no


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