[Gluster-users] Volume creation fails with "prefix of it is already part of a volume"

[Vijay Bellur]

On 08/21/2013 08:21 PM, Stroppa Daniele (strp) wrote:
> Thanks Daniel.
>
> I'm indeed running Gluster 3.4 on CentOS 6.4.
>
> I've tried your suggestion, it does work for me too, but it's not an
> optimal solution.
>
> Maybe someone could shed some light on this behaviour?

This might be of help in understanding the behavior:

http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-part-of-a-volume/

Please do let us know if you need more clarity on this.

-Vijay
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Daniele Stroppa
> Researcher
> Institute of Information Technology
> Zürich University of Applied Sciences
> http://www.cloudcomp.ch <http://www.cloudcomp.ch/>
>
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>
>
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> On 21/08/2013 09:00, "Daniel Müller" <mueller at tropenklinik.de> wrote:
>
>> Are you running with gluster 3.4?
>> I had the same issue. I solved it by deleting my subfolders again and then
>> create new ones. In your case brick1 and brick2.
>> Then create new subfolders in the place,ex.: mkdir /mnt/bricknew1  and
>> /mnt/bricknew2 .
>> This solved the problem for me, not knowing why gluster 3.4 behave like
>> this.
>> Good Luck
>>
>>
>> EDV Daniel Müller
>>
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>> Von: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
>> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] Im Auftrag von Stroppa Daniele
>> (strp)
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. August 2013 21:51
>> An: gluster-users at gluster.org
>> Betreff: [Gluster-users] Volume creation fails with "prefix of it is
>> already
>> part of a volume"
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm setting up a small test cluster: 2 nodes (gluster-node1 and
>> gluster-node4) with 2 bricks each (/mnt/brick1 and /mnt/brick2) and one
>> volume (vol_icclab). When I issue the create volume command I get the
>> following error:
>>
>> # gluster volume create vol_icclab replica 2 transport tcp
>> gluster-node4.test:/mnt/brick1/vol_icclab
>> gluster-node1.test:/mnt/brick1/vol_icclab
>> gluster-node4.test:/mnt/brick2/vol_icclab
>> gluster-node1.test:/mnt/brick2/vol_icclab
>> volume create: vol_icclab: failed: /mnt/brick1/vol_icclab or a prefix of
>> it
>> is already part of a volume
>>
>> I checked and found this [1], but in my case the issue it's happening when
>> creating the volume for the first time, not after removing/adding a brick
>> to
>> a volume.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> [1]
>> http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-p
>> art-of-a-volume/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Daniele Stroppa
>> Researcher
>> Institute of Information Technology
>> Zürich University of Applied Sciences
>> http://www.cloudcomp.ch
>>
>>
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