Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-12 Thread Saravanakumar Arumugam
On 11/11/2016 09:09 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: Friday, November 11, 2016, 4:28:36 PM, you wrote: Feature requests to in Bugzilla anyway. Create your volume with the populated brick as brick one. Start it and "heal full". gluster> volume create testvolume transport tcp gluster>

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-11-11 16:09 GMT+01:00 Sander Eikelenboom : > I think that could also be useful > when trying to recover from total disaster (where glusterfs bricks are > brokedown > and you end up with lose bricks. At least you would be able to keep the > filesystem data, remove the

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
Friday, November 11, 2016, 4:28:36 PM, you wrote: > Feature requests to in Bugzilla anyway. > Create your volume with the populated brick as brick one. Start it and "heal > full". gluster> volume create testvolume transport tcp gluster> 192.168.1.1:/mnt/glusterfs/testdata/brick force volume

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Joe Julian
Feature requests to in Bugzilla anyway. Create your volume with the populated brick as brick one. Start it and "heal full". On November 11, 2016 7:12:03 AM PST, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > >Friday, November 11, 2016, 3:47:26 PM, you wrote: > >> Reposting to

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
Friday, November 11, 2016, 3:31:05 PM, you wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Saravanakumar Arumugam > wrote: > > On 11/11/2016 06:03 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > > L.S., > > I was wondering if it would be possible to turn an existing filesystem with

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
Friday, November 11, 2016, 3:47:26 PM, you wrote: > Reposting to gluster-users as this is not development related. I posted @devel, because in the most likely case of "No", it could become a feature request ;-) -- Sander > On November 11, 2016 6:32:49 AM PST, Pranith Kumar Karampuri >

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Joe Julian
Reposting to gluster-users as this is not development related. On November 11, 2016 6:32:49 AM PST, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote: >On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri < >pkara...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM,

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Pranith Kumar Karampuri
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri < pkara...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Saravanakumar Arumugam < > sarum...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/11/2016 06:03 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: >> >>> L.S., >>> >>> I was wondering if it would be

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Pranith Kumar Karampuri
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Saravanakumar Arumugam wrote: > > > On 11/11/2016 06:03 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > >> L.S., >> >> I was wondering if it would be possible to turn an existing filesystem >> with data >> (ext4 with files en dirs) into a GlusterFS brick ?

Re: [Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Saravanakumar Arumugam
On 11/11/2016 06:03 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: L.S., I was wondering if it would be possible to turn an existing filesystem with data (ext4 with files en dirs) into a GlusterFS brick ? It is not possible, at least I am not aware about any such solution yet. I can't find much info

[Gluster-devel] Is it possible to turn an existing filesystem (with data) into a GlusterFS brick ?

2016-11-11 Thread Sander Eikelenboom
L.S., I was wondering if it would be possible to turn an existing filesystem with data (ext4 with files en dirs) into a GlusterFS brick ? I can't find much info about it except the following remark at [1] which seems to indicate it is not possible yet: Data import tool