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[Leander Bessa Beernaert <leanderbb@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see. With replication switched off during upload, does inserting into
various containers speed up the process or is it irrelevant?


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Robert van Leeuwen <
Robert.vanLeeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  > According to the info below, i think the current size is 256 right?
> > If I format the storage partition, will that automatically clear all the
> contents from the storage or do I need to clean something else as well?
> >
> > Output from xfs_info:
> > meta-data=/dev/sda3              isize=256    agcount=4, agsize=13309312
> blks
>
> Yes, this is the wrong inode size.
>
> When you format the disk on one node it will start to sync the removed
> data back from the other nodes to this machine (as long as the
> object-replicator is running on the other nodes).
> Note that this can take a pretty long time. (our nodes with millions of
> files more then a week to sync)
>
> If you want to throw away everything and start with a empty cluster my
> guess is you would need to stop everything and also remove the account and
> container databases.
> I've never done this so I can't tell you for sure if that does not break
> anything or if it needs any manual intervention to re-create the databases.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
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