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The short answer is - no there exists no script currently that can piece the shards together into a single file. Long answer: IMO the safest way to convert from sharded to a single file _is_ by copying the data out into a new volume at the moment. Picking up the files from the individual bricks directly and joining them, although fast, is a strict no-no for many reasons - for example, when you

2018-04-23 9:34 GMT+02:00 Alessandro Briosi <ab1 at metalit.com>: > Is it that really so? yes, i've opened a bug asking developers to block removal of sharding when volume has data on it or to write a huge warning message saying that data loss will happen > I thought that sharding was a extended attribute on the files created when > sharding is enabled. > > Turning off

Hello, So I have a volume on a gluster install (3.12.5) on which sharding was enabled at some point recently. (Don't know how it happened, it may have been an accidental run of an old script.) So it has been happily sharding behind our backs and it shouldn't have. I'd like to turn sharding off and reverse the files back to normal. Some of these are sparse files, so I need to account

Sorry about the late reply, I missed seeing your mail. To begin with, what is your use-case? Sharding is currently supported only for virtual machine image storage use-case. It *could* work in other single-writer use-cases but it's only tested thoroughly for the vm use-case. If yours is not a vm store use-case, you might want to do some tests first to see if it works fine. If you find any