Re: [Gluster-users] changing volume from Distributed-Replicate to Distributed

2013-11-06 Thread Lalatendu Mohanty
On 11/04/2013 06:40 PM, James wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Paul Simpson wrote: that is what i'm planning to test. i guess my underlying question is - will gluster automatically "know" that a volume of replica count 2 is not replicated any more? and if so, how will it react to the fact

Re: [Gluster-users] changing volume from Distributed-Replicate to Distributed

2013-11-04 Thread James
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Paul Simpson wrote: > that is what i'm planning to test. i guess my underlying question is - will > gluster automatically "know" that a volume of replica count 2 is not > replicated any more? and if so, how will it react to the fact that the > replicated bricks are

Re: [Gluster-users] changing volume from Distributed-Replicate to Distributed

2013-11-04 Thread Paul Simpson
thanks lukas, that is what i'm planning to test. i guess my underlying question is - will gluster automatically "know" that a volume of replica count 2 is not replicated any more? and if so, how will it react to the fact that the replicated bricks are now missing? ie, should i / or is there a way

Re: [Gluster-users] changing volume from Distributed-Replicate to Distributed

2013-11-04 Thread lukas.bezdicka
Hi, I would say it's quite OK unless you don't shrink the distribute. For example volume with replica 2 distribute 2 would look like: _/test1:/test \test2:/test _/test3:/test \test4:/test if your gluster volume heal test info is empty (eg theres nothing to heal) it should be fairly safe to remo

Re: [Gluster-users] changing volume from Distributed-Replicate to Distributed

2013-11-04 Thread Paul Simpson
ping! On 31 October 2013 11:47, Paul Simpson wrote: > hi all, > > as the title says - i'm looking to change a volume from dist/repl -> dist. > > we're currently running 3.2.7. a few of questions for you gurus out there: > - is this possible to do on 3.2.7? > - is this possible to do with 3.4.

[Gluster-users] changing volume from Distributed-Replicate to Distributed

2013-10-31 Thread Paul Simpson
hi all, as the title says - i'm looking to change a volume from dist/repl -> dist. we're currently running 3.2.7. a few of questions for you gurus out there: - is this possible to do on 3.2.7? - is this possible to do with 3.4.1? (would involve upgrade) - are there any pitfalls i should be aware