<div>You'd not need a bidirectional probe until and unless you want to assign multiple IPs/host names to a particular peer.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 at 16:35, Joseph Lorenzini <<a href="mailto:jaloren@gmail.com">jaloren@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">All:</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">According to the docs, when you initially set up a gluster storage pool, the first two servers need to probe each other. However, after that, you add additional servers in by probing from a node that's already in the pool. </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">However, when I follow the directions with gluster 3.8, the behavior doesn't seem to match up when I do the initial set up of two nodes. I probe from server 1 to server 2 but I do not probe from server 2 to server 1. My expectation would be that either the pool or peer commands would indicate the server 2 does not "trust" server 1 but it in fact server 2 just indicates its successfully connected in a pool and server 1 is a trusted peer.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">In addition, if I do a probe from server 2 to server 1, it does not just say probe success. Instead it says, "probe successful host already in peer list".</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">So here are my questions: is this initial probe each server from the other dance actually required? And if it is, is a there a way to tell through a command or looking at a log whether that's occurred or not?</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><a href="https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Storage%20Pools/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Storage%20Pools/</a><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_msg">Joe</div></div>
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