[Gluster-users] trying to avoid a penalty for renaming every file

[Christian Rice]

We have a gluster pool where our developers are writing large files with the suffix .COPYING, then removing that suffix when the copy is done (renaming the file), so consumers of the data know the file is safe to read.

Back in 2014, Jeff Darcy wrote the below in a thread.  I guess I am basically asking if this is still the supported/encouraged approach, and how do I implement this when I’m using gluster’s NFS?

"That said, there's also a trick you can use to avoid creation of a
linkfile.  Other tools, such as rsync and our own object interface,
use the same write-then-rename idiom.  To serve them, there's an
option called extra-hash-regex that can be used to place files on the
"right" brick according to their final name even though they're created
with another.  Unfortunately, specifying that option via the command line
doesn't seem to work (it creates a malformed volfile) so you have to
mount a bit differently.  For example:

   glusterfs --volfile-server=a_server --volfile-id=a_volume \
   --xlator-option a_volume-dht.extra_hash_regex='(.*+)tmp' \
   /a/mountpoint

The important part is that second line.  That causes any file with a
"tmp" suffix to be hashed and placed as though only the part in the
first parenthesized part of the regex (i.e. without the "tmp") was
there.  Therefore, creating "xxxtmp" and then renaming it to "xxx" is
the same as just creating "xxx" in the first place as far as linkfiles
etc. are concerned.  Note that the excluded part can be anything that
a regex can match, including a unique random number.  If I recall,
rsync uses temp files something like this:

   fubar = .fubar.NNNNNN (where NNNNNNN is a random number)

I know this probably seems a little voodoo-ish, but with a little bit
of experimentation to find the right regex you should be able to avoid
those dreaded linkfiles altogether."
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