Gluster users - Feb 2010 - Migrate from an NFS storage to GlusterFS

Hi -

I already have an NFS server in production which shares Web data for a 
4-node Apache cluster. I'd like to switch to GlusterFS.

Do I have to copy the files from the NFS storage to a GlusterFS one, or 
may it work if I just install GlusterFS on that server, configuring a 
GFS volume to the existing storage directory (assuming, of course, the 
NFS server is shuuted down and not used anymore), then ls -lR?

Thanks,
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Olivier Le Cam
D?partement des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication
Acad?mie de Versailles

Olivier Le Cam wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I already have an NFS server in production which shares Web data for a 
> 4-node Apache cluster. I'd like to switch to GlusterFS.
>
> Do I have to copy the files from the NFS storage to a GlusterFS one, 
> or may it work if I just install GlusterFS on that server, configuring 
> a GFS volume to the existing storage directory (assuming, of course, 
> the NFS server is shuuted down and not used anymore), then ls -lR?
What kind of GlusterFS configuration do you intend to use? Distribute, 
Replicate, or both?

Vikas