RE: [Gluster-devel] Decomission a brick

[DeeDee Park]

> currently you can mark certain subvolumes as read-only in unify to do this.

Would then the files be copied to a different brick when the files are opened 
during a "find /mnt/glusterfs"? The feature would be a little more than just 
making it read-only. It would have to allow files to get offloaded and removed 
from the brick while still being in service. I assume the read-only would still 
make it possible to have only one copy on the decomissioned brick.

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:39:56 +0530
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Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Decomission a brick
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Thanks, the concept makes sense. I would be using the unify scenario you gave, 
but it requires

effectively a downtime while the brick is rsynced back into the /mnt/glusterfs. 
It does take quite a bit
of time to get large quantites of data transferred back into the active file 
system. 

I would like to see a feature where I can still keep the brick active, yet all 
*new* file accesses or creations would not use the brick that was planned for 
decomission. 

currently you can mark certain subvolumes as read-only in unify to do this.
 

This way as the regularly used files are then moved off to other bricks by 
normal use, and over time there would be less to transfer from the 
decomissioning brick. Isn't there some way to do this in the spec file so that 
no more files are written to the brick?


I was thinking something more like 
1) set available disk size to zero for the brick
2) find /mnt/glusterfs (this would move the files out of the full or 
decomissioned brick)
this would not move files out.

we'll keep the list updated with the progress about hot migration.

avati

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