Re: [Moosefs-users] Balance chunks

[Thomas S H. <tha...@gm...>]

Thanks guys! Thats what I needed to know, that also helps since some of our
chunkservers have more space than others, I will continue to wait then and
continue to trust the moose!

-Tom

2010/12/10 Michał Borychowski <mic...@ge...>

> But please remember that this process takes quite a long time (it may be
> 2-3
> weeks). Performance is the most important thing for the system, not
> rebalancing.
>
>
> Regards
> Michał
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Wandrebeck [mailto:lw...@hy...]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 10:43 AM
> To: moo...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Moosefs-users] Balance chunks
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:56:09 -0700
> Thomas S Hatch <tha...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I am wondering, I have a large moosefs setup right now with over 140T,
> > but we built the chunkservers out one at a time and the file load is
> > very different on all the servers, I have some servers using %45 of
> > thier disk space and some using above %90.
> >
> > This of course happened because we were running on a few servers,
> > added a lot of files and then added more servers, I am just curious,
> > as I have been unable to find this in the docs anywhere, but is it
> > possible to tell the mfsmaster to start moving chunks around for a
> > more even distribution of files in this case? Or should it just even out
> over time?
> >
> > -Tom Hatch
> That's pretty strange, mfs balances by default data load.
> If your fs is 80% full, your say 3 chunkservers should be about 80% full
> each. try restarting the mfschunkserver service on a lightly loaded
> chunkserver ?
> There's no way afaik to tell mfsmaster to balance. It does this by default.
> HTH,
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