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From: | gordan |
Subject: | [Gluster-devel] Replication Initialization from Existing Directory |
Date: | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:27:09 +0100 (BST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 1.10 (LRH 962 2008-03-14) |
Hi,I'm trying to move a large volume of data from local disk to GlusterFS. I could just copy it, but copying ~ 1TB of data is slow. So, what I've tried to do (with some randomly generated data for a test case) is to specify the directory already containing the data as the data source for the underlying storage brick.
I then fire up glusterfsd and glusterfs on the same machine, and I can see all the data via the mountpoint.
On another node, I start glusterfsd and glusterfs, and I can see and read the data. But, the data doesn't appear on the underlying data brick on the 2nd node after I have done cat * > /dev/null in the mounted directory.
So it looks like GluserFS isn't causing the data to get copied on reads in this scenario.
Can anyone hazard a guess as to why this might be? I am guessing that it's to do with the fact that the xattrs/metaddata have not been initialized by glusterfs because the files were added "underneath" rather than via the mountpoint. Is there a workaround for this, e.g. by manually setting some xattrs on the files (in a hope that this might be faster than copying the whole volume)?
Thanks. Gordan
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