Ok, good to hear. will there be any impact in listing folder and files?.
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Nithya Balachandran <nbala...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > 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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