[Gluster-devel] Re: Setting up a new AFR, but using one preexisting directory

[Brandon Lamb]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Brandon Lamb <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Brandon Lamb <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I cant find the mail, I noticed it a few days ago, someone mentioned
> > something about setting the file attributes to 3? Does that make
> > sense?
> >
> > Anyway, it sounded like what may have been giving me some grief last
> > time I set up a 2 server afr config. On one server I had my web data,
> > and on the other i had a new blank folder. I thought by setting up
> > gluster (using the existing dir on one, and a new empty dir on the
> > other) that by doing the find () trick it would sync all the files,
> > but is this maybe not true?
> >
> > I bring this up for 2 reasons, one to have it answered, and two
> > because maybe this shoud be on the wiki somewhere.
> >
> > When setting up a new afr, should you start with 2 empty directories
> > and then copy your files to the glusterfs mount, or should you do an
> > rsync and then do the set attributes to 3 thing (could someone give a
> > little more detail or correct my language on this?).
> >
> > Hopefully I am making some sense with my question, Im not totally
> > clear on it myself.
> >
> > thanks!
>
> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Automatic_File_Replication_%28Mirror%29_across_Two_Storage_Servers
>
> Maybe this page could be worked up a little more with some information on 
> this?
>
> I apologize for not knowing, Im not sure who all does the examples or
> if its one person or what. Could the person(s) in charge of the
> examples or maybe just this one add more to this though?
>
> It may seem redundant to those that are comfortable configuring the
> bricks, but myself, I dont fully understand what should go where, what
> order. I understand this is a hard question to answer though because
> of how configurable glusterfs can be.
>
> So my request I guess is specific to a 2 machine, server side afr with
> many clients config example(s).
>
> Maybe start with the basic one that is there, then add a few more
> examples with how you might tune it with performance translators and
> such. It would just save a little time compared to the trial and error
> method.
>

Ok so using the setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.version -v 3 <file/dir>
command, do you need to build a script to recurvisely go through every
file/folder for the given path?