[Gluster-users] adding arbiter

[Gambit15]

As I understand it, only new files will be sharded, but simply renaming or
moving them may be enough in that case.

I'm interested in the arbiter/sharding bug you've mentioned. Could you
provide any more details or a link?

Cheers,
 D

On 30 March 2017 at 20:25, Laura Bailey <lbailey at redhat.com> wrote:

> I can't answer all of these, but I think the only way to share existing
> files is to create a new volume with sharding enabled and copy the files
> over into it.
>
> Cheers,
> Laura B
>
>
> On Friday, March 31, 2017, Alessandro Briosi <ab1 at metalit.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi I need some advice.
>>
>> I'm currently on 3.8.10 and would like to know the following:
>>
>> 1. If I add an arbiter to an existing volume should I also run a
>> rebalance?
>> 2. If I had sharding enabled would adding the arbiter trigger the
>> corruption bug?
>> 3. What's the procedure to enable sharding on an existing volume so that
>> it shards already existing files?
>> 4. Suppose I have sharding disabled, then add an arbiter brick, then
>> enable sharding and execute the procedure for point 3, would this still
>> trigger the corruption bug?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alessandro
>>
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