[Pvfs2-users] Verification of data distribution and replication

[Nikhil Kulkarni]

Thanks Phil. I truly appreciate all the prompt responses from everyone!!

Nikhil

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Carns [mailto:pcarns at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Phil Carns
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 6:16 AM
To: Nikhil Kulkarni
Cc: pvfs2-users at beowulf-underground.org
Subject: Re: [Pvfs2-users] Verification of data distribution and
replication

Nikhil Kulkarni wrote:
> I'm sorry if this seems to be a dumb question, but I have just started

> using pvfs and had a query:
> 
> Is there a way in which I can verify that the data is indeed being 
> spread across the various data nodes that I have configured?

Kyle's response has a good suggestion for this.

> There does not seem to be much information about maintaining pvfs or 
> adding a new I/O node to an existing cluster.

We should probably put this in the FAQ, but this mailing list posting 
has a brief overview of how to add I/O nodes:

http://www.beowulf-underground.org/pipermail/pvfs2-developers/2008-June/
004078.html

> We are in the process of evaluating pvfs and hope to deploy it on a 
> large cluster in a production environment.

Excellent- good luck!

-Phil