Commit 1b4453d9 authored by Nick Thomas's avatar Nick Thomas

Merge branch 'patch-34' into 'master'

Add storage shards wording

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!18732
parents a5a4f4e1 408609a9
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> [Introduced][ce-4578] in GitLab 8.10.
GitLab allows you to define multiple repository storage paths to distribute the
storage load between several mount points.
GitLab allows you to define multiple repository storage paths (sometimes called
storage shards) to distribute the storage load between several mount points.
> **Notes:**
>
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Two different storage layouts can be used
to store the repositories on disk and their characteristics.
GitLab can be configured to use one or multiple repository shard locations
that can be:
GitLab can be configured to use one or multiple repository storage paths/shard
locations that can be:
- Mounted to the local disk
- Exposed as an NFS shared volume
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On the other hand this has some drawbacks:
Storage location will concentrate huge amount of top-level namespaces. The
impact can be reduced by the introduction of [multiple storage
paths][storage-paths].
impact can be reduced by the introduction of
[multiple storage paths](repository_storage_paths.md).
Because backups are a snapshot of the same URL mapping, if you try to recover a
very old backup, you need to verify whether any project has taken the place of
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[ce-2821]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/2821
[ce-28283]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/28283
[rake/migrate-to-hashed]: raketasks/storage.md#migrate-existing-projects-to-hashed-storage
[storage-paths]: repository_storage_types.md
[gitaly]: gitaly/index.md
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