[Gluster-users] Rebalance question

[Fred van Zwieten]

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On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Fred van Zwieten <fvzwieten at vxcompany.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>
>> I have a question. I am on RHS 2.0 Update 4 (will soon go to 2.1 when
>> it's out) and I have a distributed volume (across 7 nodes) where a fair
>> amount of directory moves take place (or directory renames). AFAIK this
>> will most likely give new hash values and so all data needs to be moved
>> around the pool. Gluster does not do this immediately, but instead creates
>> a link from the new location to the old location.
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1. Is there a gluster command to investigate the amount of these links
>> (How "dirty" is my volume)
>> 2. What command to I use to fix this. I think a "simple" rebalance would
>> do it.
>>
>> I would like to create a cron job that checks the amount of links and, if
>> above a certain level, it will do a rebalance. Alternatively I could do a
>> fixed periodic rebalance. And I have as yet no idea on what level (what
>> amount of found links) a rebalance is necessary.
>>
>> Any thoughts, hints, etc?
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief
>> stops, because it isn’t needed any more.. (Terry Pratchett)
>>
>
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