On 4 April 2017 at 12:33, Amudhan P <amudha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a query on rebalancing. > > let's consider following is my folder hierarchy. > > parent1-fol (parent folder) > |_ > class-fol-1 ( 1 st level subfolder) > |_ > A ( 2 nd level subfolder) > |_ > childfol-1 (child folder created > every time before writing files) > > > Now, I have a running cluster with 3.10.1 with disperse volume and I am > planning to expand cluster by adding bricks. > > will there be a problem using newly added bricks without doing a > "rebalance fix layout" other than existing files cannot be rebalanced to > new brick and files created under existing folder will not go to new brick?. > > I tested above case in my test setup and observed files created under new > folder goes to new brick. and I don't see any issue on listing files and > folder. > > so, My case is we create child folder every time before creating files. > > The reason to avoid rebalance is I have more than 10000 folders across > 1080 bricks. so triggering rebalance will take a long time and in my > previous expansion in 3.7 was not able to access some folders randomly > until fix layout completes. > > It sounds like you will not need to run a rebalance or fix-layout for this. It should work fine.
Regards, Nithya > > regards > Amudhan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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