<html><head></head><body><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I had a "bad timing" event where I lost 3 drives in a RAID6 array and the structure of all of the LVM pools and nodes was lost. All total, nearly 100TB of storage was scrambled.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This array was 1/2 of a redundant (replica 2) gluster config (will be adding additional 3rd soon for split brain/redundancy with failure issues) so the data was not lost but just running in a degraded mode.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The failed drives were replaced, the array rebuilt, all the thin_pools and thin_volumes recreated, LUKS recreated and now the data from the other half has been bulk copied to the rebuilt mirror locations - along with all the .glusterfs space - not sure if that should be copied over or not.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It's time to bring gluster back online. The original gluster data was not part of the raid failure and all the names are the same (except one LV, thin_lv, and it's thin_pool - working to change those now). </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">soooo... Now what? At this time if I try and activate gluster it runs (and I shut it down awaiting better wisdom from here than I have). Do I need to just sit back and "let the magic happen"? What should I be looking for to head off issues.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(getting prices now for a third node).</div></body></html>