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Re: [Gluster-devel] unify: No space left on device


From: Kevan Benson
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] unify: No space left on device
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:01:47 -0800
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Albert Shih wrote:
 Le 29/11/2007 à 19:42:55+0100, Albert Shih a écrit
Hi all

I use glusterfs with unify volume and nufa scheduler.

On each node (ie node10) I have :

volume node10
  type storage/posix
  option directory /_glusterfs
end-volume


volume unify
  type cluster/unify
    subvolumes node01 ... node28
 option scheduler nufa
 option nufa.local-volume-name node10
 option nufa.limits.min-free-disk 5%
 option namespace ns
end-volume

and it's working. When I've loggin node10 and write in my glusterfs mounted
partition it's write directly in my /_glusterfs partition. But what's not very good is when the physical partition is full like
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1     133G  124G  2.1G  99% /_glusterfs

and I put a file with size (for example) 5 Go glusterfs don't seem to able
to split the file in two. I've got the file system full error message.

I mean : one file until the file system is full and a second file on other
node.

Unify doesn't split files. It just abstracts which server the file is stored on and retrieved from, and the aggregation of the files from all the servers when a listing is done. What you should be seeing in this case, is that the *whole file* is written to a node that does have space (if there is a node that has more than 5% space available).

Is you used the striping translator above the unify, you would be storing chunks of files (if the files are large enough), and the chunks will be scattered across the nodes. That would allow for more efficient space usage.

--

-Kevan Benson
-A-1 Networks




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