Hi,

and thanks for your help. I have installed an testenvironment and could 
reconstruct the problem and the solution is to delete the .glusterfs dir with 
its hardlinks. 

thanks all 

Taste

Am 17.11.2021 09:03:27, schrieb Diego Zuccato:
> Hi.
> 
> If you can still move files from the broken *volume*, you don't have to 
> touch .glusterfs folder: it's managed by gluster itself and that's the 
> preferred way to recover (more like a transfer between two volumes that 
> only accidentally share the filesystem on the bricks).
> 
> But if the vol was really broken (wouldn't start at all), the only way 
> to recover would be to read the files *from the bricks*.
> 
> Those are quite different scenarios that require different recovery 
> methods. Recovering from the briks is slightly more complicated, since 
> you have to manually handle duplicate files, checking if they're 
> actually identical or if there are differences.
> 
> Il 16/11/2021 11:14, Taste-Of-IT ha scritto:
> > Hi Diego,
> > 
> > i noticed, when i move files from broken volume to new mounted gf volume, 
> > the folder and files are also deleted from .glusterfs directory. Thats ok 
> > right, because there are the hardlilnks of the files, right? You wrote, 
> > that you delete the .glusterfs Folder first and than move. I didnt try it 
> > because iam afraid of loosing all files, if these are the hardlings. I also 
> > noticed, if i moved files and the folder and files are also deleted in 
> > .glusterfs, the disk size didnt change.
> > 
> > => i read about hardlink and it seems that there is a remaining part of 
> > them, thats why the free space rises, right? So i have to delete the 
> > .glusterfs directory right and no "real" files are deleted. Thats what i 
> > understand now by reading about hardlinks.
> > 
> > What do you think
> > thx
> > 
> 
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