Gluster users - Nov 2010 - filling gluster cluster with large file doesn't crash the system?!

craig et al,

I have a 2 brick distributed 283GB gluster cluster on CentoOS 5. we  
nfs mounted the cluster from a 3rd machine and wrote random junk to a  
file. i watched the file grow to 200GB on the cluster when it appeared  
to stop. however the machine writing to the file still lists the file  
as growing. it's now at over 320GB. what's going on?

-matt

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Matt Hodson
Scientific Customer Support, Geospiza
(206) 633-4403, Ext. 111
http://www.geospiza.com

I should also note that on this non-production test rig the block size  
on both bricks is 1KB (1024) so the theoretical file size limit is  
16GB.  so how then did i get a file of 200GB?
-matt

On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Matt Hodson wrote:
> craig et al,
>
> I have a 2 brick distributed 283GB gluster cluster on CentoOS 5. we  
> nfs mounted the cluster from a 3rd machine and wrote random junk to  
> a file. i watched the file grow to 200GB on the cluster when it  
> appeared to stop. however the machine writing to the file still  
> lists the file as growing. it's now at over 320GB. what's going on?
>
> -matt
>
> -------
> Matt Hodson
> Scientific Customer Support, Geospiza
> (206) 633-4403, Ext. 111
> http://www.geospiza.com
>
>
>
>