[Gluster-users] Reconstructing files from shards

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 13:10:41 UTC 2018


So a stock ovirt with gluster install that uses sharding 
A. Can't safely have sharding turned off once files are in use
B. Can't be expanded with additional bricks

Ouch.


On April 22, 2018 5:39:20 AM EDT, Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
>Il dom 22 apr 2018, 10:46 Alessandro Briosi <ab1 at metalit.com> ha
>scritto:
>
>> Imho the easiest path would be to turn off sharding on the volume and
>> simply do a copy of the files (to a different directory, or rename
>and
>> then copy i.e.)
>>
>> This should simply store the files without sharding.
>>
>
>If you turn off sharding on a sharded volume with data in it, all
>sharded
>files would be unreadable
>
>>

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