[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Impact of force option in remove-brick

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 03/22/2016 12:23 PM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Gaurav Garg <ggarg at redhat.com
> <mailto:ggarg at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     >> I just want to know what is the difference in the following scenario:
> 
>     1. remove-brick without the force option
>     2. remove-brick with the force option
> 
> 
>     remove-brick without force option will perform task based on your
>     option,
>     for eg. remove-brick start option will start migration of file from
>     given
>     remove-brick to other available bricks in the cluster. you can check
>     status
>     of this remove-brick task by issuing remove-brick status command.
> 
>     But remove-brick with force option will just forcefully remove brick
>     from the cluster.
>     It will result in data loss in case of distributed volume, because
>     it will not migrate file
>     from given remove-brick to other available bricks in the cluster. In
>     case of replicate volume
>     you might not have problem by doing remove-brick force because later
>     on after adding brick you
>     can issue heal command and migrate file from first replica set to
>     this newly added brick.\
> 
> 
> so when you are saying the forcefully remove the brick means it will
> remove the brick even when
> that brick is not available or available but have the different uuid of
> peers, without generating any error?
As I mentioned earlier it doesn't make sense to differentiate between
these two behaviors until the UUID mismatch issue is resolved.
> 
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     ~Gaurav
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "ABHISHEK PALIWAL" <abhishpaliwal at gmail.com
>     <mailto:abhishpaliwal at gmail.com>>
>     To: gluster-users at gluster.org <mailto:gluster-users at gluster.org>,
>     gluster-devel at gluster.org <mailto:gluster-devel at gluster.org>
>     Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 11:35:52 AM
>     Subject: [Gluster-users] Impact of force option in remove-brick
> 
>     Hi Team,
> 
>     I have the following scenario:
> 
>     1. I have one replica 2 volume in which two brick are available.
>     2. in such permutation and combination I got the UUID of peers mismatch.
>     3. Because of UUID mismatch when I tried to remove brick on the
>     second board I am getting the Incorrect Brick failure.
> 
>     Now, I have the question if I am using the remove-brick command with
>     the 'force' option it means it should remove the brick in any
>     situation either the brick is available or its UUID is mismatch.
> 
>     I just want to know what is the difference in the following scenario:
> 
>     1. remove-brick without the force option
>     2. remove-brick with the force option
> 
> 
>     Regards
>     Abhishek
> 
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> Regards
> Abhishek Paliwal
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