[Gluster-users] newbie questions.

Jeff Darcy jdarcy at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 13:43:32 UTC 2011


On 04/19/2011 09:20 AM, Fyodor Ustinov wrote:
> 1. Possible create new volume by 'gluster' command stripe and replica 
> simultaneously?

This came up at my job recently too.  I was surprised to find that,
although the code and the volfile syntax both support this, the CLI
syntax has no way to express it.

> 2. File stored on glusterfs can not be greater size than the brick?

Without striping, yes, the size of a file cannot be greater than the
(remaining) size of a brick - or the smallest of all replica bricks if
you're using replication.  IMO this is one of the main reasons to use
striping, since I've never seen it provide any performance benefit.

> 3. I have two bricks of size 10G each. And 2 files of 4G each on one 
> brick. Perform glusterfs self-balancing and migrate one file to another 
> brick? I must/can do it "by hand"?

It's probably better to let GlusterFS do the rebalancing if possible,
but it might not work with very small numbers of files.



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