[Gluster-devel] This bug hunt just gets weirder...

[Gordan Bobic]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:02:03 +0530, Anand Avati <avati at gluster.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>> OK, I've managed to resolve this, but it wasn't possible to resync the
>> primary off the secondary. What I ended up doing was backing up the
files
>> that were changed since the primary went down, blanking the secondary,
>> resyncing the secondary off the primary, and copying the backed up files
>> back into the file system.
>>
>> By primary and secondary here I am referring to the order in which they
>> are listed in subvolumes.
>>
>> So to re-iterate - syncing primary off the secondary wasn't working, but
>> syncing secondary off the primary worked.
>>
>> Can anyone hazard a guess as to how to debug this issue further? Since I
>> have the backup of the old data on the secondary, I can probably have a
>> go
>> at re-creating the problem (I'm hoping it won't be re-creatable with the
>> freshly synced data).
> 
> Did you happen to change the subvolume order in the vofile, or
> add/remove subvols? Doing so may result in such unexpected behavior.

Yes. I added a server/subvolume to the AFR cluster, and subequently removed
one of the servers. Are there any additional procedures that have be
followed when adding a node to a cluster?

Gordan