[Ocfs2-users] Number of Nodes defined

[Sunil Mushran]

Reducing node-slots frees up the journal and distributes the metadata
that that slot was tracking to the remaining slots. I am not aware of
any reason why there should be an impact.

On 11/16/2011 03:07 PM, David wrote:
> I did read the man page for tunefs.ocfs2 but I didn't see anything indicating what the impact to the fs would be when making a change to an existing fs such as reducing the node slots.
>
> Anyway, thank you for the feedback, I was able to make the changes with no impact to the fs.
>
> David
>
> On 11/16/2011 12:12 PM, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>> man tunefs.ocfs2
>>
>> It cannot be done in an active cluster. But it can be done without having to
>> reformat the volume.
>>
>> On 11/16/2011 10:08 AM, David wrote:
>>> I wasn't able to find any documentation that answers whether or not the
>>> number of nodes defined for a cluster,  can be reduced on an active
>>> cluster as seen via:
>>>
>>> tunefs.ocfs2 -Q "%B %T %N\n"
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if this can be done, or do I have to copy the data off
>>> of the fs, make the changes, reformat the fs and copy the data back?
>>>
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