[Gluster-users] Expanding volume

[M S Vishwanath Bhat]

On 4 December 2013 04:33, Will Glass-Husain <wglass at forio.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to expand my replicated volume but am getting an error. My goal
> is to double my capacity by adding new volumes.  Any suggestions?
>
> # gluster volume info
>
> Volume Name: eproduct
> Type: Replicate
> Volume ID: 1325b138-9777-4d76-9701-6410c0ff35d9
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: staging1:/export/brick1
> Brick2: staging2:/export/brick1
>
> (I created a new volume /export/brick2 on each of the two servers)
>
> # gluster volume add-brick eproduct staging1:/export/brick2
> staging2:/export/brick2
> volume add-brick: failed: /export/brick2 or a prefix of it is already part
> of a volume
>
> Looks like export brick "/export/brick2" was part of some other gluster
volume before. Brick has some xattrs which needs to be cleared before
adding them to the gluster volume.

This should help you.

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

Note that you will have to run rebalance after adding new bricks.





> ---
>
> Would appreciate suggestions as to what I need to do to add new volumes to
> give me larger storage capacity.
>
> Thanks!
>
> WILL
>
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