Gluster users - Jan 2015 - gluster verbosity

Hello,

Most of my gluster mounting points (in replica mode) are  full of 
sequential directories (a0, a1, etc...) in .glusterfs. Those data 
usually reach several GB and finally block the volume.
Are those data usefull and is there a way to reduce them, maybe with 
less verbosity?

Thank you.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 02:33:55PM +0100, Nathana?l Blanchet
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Most of my gluster mounting points (in replica mode) are  full of
sequential
> directories (a0, a1, etc...) in .glusterfs. Those data usually reach
several
> GB and finally block the volume.
> Are those data usefull and is there a way to reduce them, maybe with less
> verbosity?
These directories are used to find files by their GFID (volume wide
inode). The actual files are hardlinks to the files on the volume/brick
and do not take any extra space. The symbolic links you find under
.glusterfs/ point to directories on the volume/brick.

Some more details have been posted here:

    http://joejulian.name/blog/what-is-this-new-glusterfs-directory-in-33/

Does this clear things up?

Niels
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