Re: [Gluster-users] cannot create a new volume with a brick that used to be part of a deleted volume?

2012-09-21 Thread Dr. Jörg Petersen
Hello, what I regularly do: 1) Create a snapshot (btrfs) of Brick 2) reassemble the snapshots into an new (Snapshot-) Gluster-Volume When Reassembling the snapshots I have to remove all xattr's and .gluster-Directory. Since btrfs is painfully slow in deleting, I would prefer an option to

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster's read performance

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Julian
Small files is sort of a misconception. Initial file ops include a small amount of overhead, with a lookup, the filename is hashed, the dht subvolume is selected and the request is sent to that subvolume. If it's a replica, the request is sent to each replica in that subvolume set (usually 2).

[Gluster-users] infiniband bonding

2012-09-21 Thread samuel
Hi folks, Reading this post: http://community.gluster.org/q/port-bonding-link-aggregation-transport-rdma-ib-verbs/ It says that gluster 3.2 does not support bonding of infiniband ports. Does anyone knows whether 3.3 has changed this limitation? Is there any other place where to find information

Re: [Gluster-users] infiniband bonding

2012-09-21 Thread Fernando Frediani (Qube)
Well, it actually says it is a limitation of the Infiniband driver so nothing with Gluster I guess. If the driver allow then in theory should not be a problem for Gluster. Fernando From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of samuel Sent: 21

[Gluster-users] gluster 3.2x and 3.3 compatible?

2012-09-21 Thread Gregor Burck
Hi, I test gluster on two debian (3.2.7) and one ubuntu machine (3.2.5). So long it work. Then I try to upgrade on the debian machines to 3.3.0 from experimental. With this, I can't use the ubuntu one as peer. Isn't that compatible? Bye Gregor --

Re: [Gluster-users] gluster 3.2x and 3.3 compatible?

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Julian
Sorry, no. That was a design goal, but it wasn't possible. On 09/21/2012 03:44 AM, Gregor Burck wrote: Hi, I test gluster on two debian (3.2.7) and one ubuntu machine (3.2.5). So long it work. Then I try to upgrade on the debian machines to 3.3.0 from experimental. With this, I can't use the

Re: [Gluster-users] cannot create a new volume with a brick that used to be part of a deleted volume?

2012-09-21 Thread Doug Hunley
Yes, I think an option (--force maybe) that says I know I'm about to lose data, that's what I want sounds like a reasonable compromise. And the given examples have clarified the current behavior in my mind. Thank you for the replies everyone. I'm better informed now. Sent from my Google Nexus 7

Re: [Gluster-users] Performance optimization tips Gluster 3.3? (small files / directory listings)

2012-09-21 Thread Alex
Hi Brian, I'm just wondering if you had any luck with figuring out performance limitations of your setup. I'm testing a similar configuration, so any tips or recommendations would be much appreciated. Thanks, --Alex ___ Gluster-users mailing list