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 > <pkara...@redhat.com> 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, 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 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 about it except the following remark at [1] which > seems > to indicate it is not possible yet: > > Data import tool > > Create a tool which will allow importing already existing data in > the brick > directories into the gluster volume. > This is most likely going to be a special rebalance process. > > So that would mean i would always have to: > - first create an GlusterFS brick on an empty filesystem > - after that copy all the data into the mounted GlusterFS brick > - never ever copy something into the filesystem (or manipulate it otherwise) > used as a GlusterFS brick directly (without going through a GlusterFS > client mount) > > because there is no checking / healing between GlusterFS's view on the data > and the data in the > underlying brick filesystem ? > > Is this a correct view ? > > > you are right ! > Once the data is copied into Gluster, it internally creates meta-data about > data(file/dir). > Unless you copy it via Gluster mount point, it is NOT possible to create > such meta-data. > No, it is possible. You just need to be a bit creative. > Could you let me know how many such bricks you have which you want to convert > to glusterfs. It seems like you want replication as well. So if you give me > all this information. With your help may be we can at least come up with a > document on how this can be done. > Once the import is complete, whatever you are saying about not touching the > brick directly and doing everything from the mount point holds. But we can > definitely convert an existing ext4 directory structure into a volume. > > > > Thanks, > Saravana > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@gluster.org > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@gluster.org http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
