[Gluster-users] problems with replication & NFS

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Adam Brenner <aebrenne at uci.edu> wrote:
>> What's the correct way to bring up a pre-existing NFS server inside of
>> glusterfs, so that its replicated to some new server? It would be
>> somewhat hacky to have to write data just to get everything
>> replicated.
>
> From what I recall -- and I will be corrected if I am wrong :) --
> this is not possible (yet!). I believe this sort of option is being
> explored. To add existing data to gluster, you will need to use the
> gluster client and copy the data from your current NFS mounted folder
> over to the gluster client mounted folder.

OK, thanks.  That's somewhat disappointing, but I suppose I can work around it.