Gluster users - May 2011 - creating a volume with an already populated folder

Hi,

I've got backup server already half full of data. Datas are in /export
I installed glusterfs on it and set up a simple replicated volume . The 
second server is up and running but I can't see the file on  /export on 
server A replicating on server B
Did I miss something?
Thx

Hi Karim,

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Karim Latouche
<klatouche at digitalchocolate.com> wrote:
>
> I've got backup server already half full of data. Datas are in /export
> I installed glusterfs on it and set up a simple replicated volume . The
> second server is up and running but I can't see the file on ?/export on
> server A replicating on server B
> Did I miss something?
It is not suggested to create Gluster volumes with data already
present in the backend. The results are unexpected. Instead create a
volume with new directories and copy this data from the mount point.

-sac

Hi Greg

Thanks for your answer.
Actually it more a server issue.
I have box A and BoxB each of them export /export folder
I have around 200Gigs of file on BoxA in /export  and I was hopping that 
creating a volume exporting /export will trigger repilication on Box B.
It looks like it doesn't.

Cheers

K
> So... don't know that I should share this will all since its not
> suggested... but all you have to do is stat all of the files.  If you
> generate a file list on the storage box and then take that list to the
> client that can't see them, and run stat on each file it should find
them
> all.
>
> Depending on your data size it might not be worth the effort.
>
> -greg
>