Relocator

The relocator is an internal StorPool service that takes care of data reallocation in case volume’s replication or placement group parameters are changed. This service is turned on by default. For details, see Rebalancing the cluster.

Turning on and off

When needed, the relocator could be turned off with:

# storpool relocator off
OK

To turn it back on:

# storpool relocator on
OK

Displaying status

To display relocator’s status:

# storpool relocator status
relocator on, no volumes to relocate

Additional relocator commands

To return the state of the disks after the relocator finishes all presently running tasks, as well as the quantity of objects and data each drive still needs to recover:

# storpool relocator disks

The output of this command is the same as the one from storpool balancer disks after the balancing task has been committed; see Balancer for details.

To show the same information as storpool relocator disks with the pending operations for a specific volume:

# storpool relocator volume <volumename> disks

To show the same information as storpool relocator disks with the pending operations for a specific snapshot:

# storpool relocator snapshot <snapshotname> disks