Re: [Moosefs-users] How to speedup replication from disk marked for removal

[Boris E. <bor...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Davies Liu <dav...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Boris Epstein <bor...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > Davies,
> >
> > How would you do that? Do you just copy the whole chunk storage
> directory?
>
> Yes，it do not matter which disk the chunk data was stored.
>
> If one disk has less free space, we could even move part of them to
> another.
>
> After a patch for chunk server, make a symlink for moved chunks, we could
> do this disk usage adjustment online, without shutting down chunk server.
> mfsrebalance.py, as attached, can do this automatically.
>
>
But I think the task is to take the entire chunk server off line - then do
you just move the content? Then how does the system know where to look for
it?

Boris.