[Gluster-users] Access data directly from underlying storage

[Rumen Telbizov]

Thank you once again for your input. It's highly appreciated.


On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Melkor Lord <melkor.lord at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Rumen Telbizov <telbizov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your answer Melkor.
>>
>
> You're welcome!
>
>
>> This is the kind of experience I was looking for actually. I am happy
>> that it has worked fine for you.
>>
>> Anybody coming across any issues while reading directly from the
>> underlying disk?
>>
>
> I don't think you'll find any issues, at least on the replica scenario
> since the copied data is exactly the same for every brick in the cluster.
> After all, Gluster only exports a directory content accross the network. I
> don't really see how it could mess things up, especially if all you do is
> reading the files on the exported directory.
>
> I see the workflow basically as NFS or Samba. You can acces the exported
> root and remove/add files from it without creating havock for the clients
> except the usual "can't access xxx" if you remove/rename a file before the
> client refreshes the directory listing.
>
> I won't try such things though (not outside a test environment only) on a
> distributed scenario since in that particular case, the files are splitted
> in bits. Still, I think read only is always safe :-)
>
> --
> Unix _IS_ user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
>



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Rumen Telbizov
Unix Systems Administrator <http://telbizov.com>
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