[Gluster-users] creating a volume with an already populated folder

[sac]

Hi Karim,

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Karim Latouche
<klatouche at digitalchocolate.com> wrote:
>
> I've got backup server already half full of data. Datas are in /export
> I installed glusterfs on it and set up a simple replicated volume . The
> second server is up and running but I can't see the file on  /export on
> server A replicating on server B
> Did I miss something?

It is not suggested to create Gluster volumes with data already
present in the backend. The results are unexpected. Instead create a
volume with new directories and copy this data from the mount point.

-sac