[Gluster-users] how to reboot all bricks safely and seamlessly

Kingsley gluster at gluster.dogwind.com
Wed Aug 12 08:50:30 UTC 2015


Thanks. Who are the AFR team, and how can I contact them?

Cheers,
Kingsley.

On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 22:47 +0530, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
> Well as you mentioned you might have rebooted the other node of the
> replica pair when the self heal was in progress. AFR team can help you
> with details if there is a way to detect whether heal is in progress
> or not.
> 
> -Atin
> Sent from one plus one
> 
> On Aug 11, 2015 10:06 PM, "Kingsley" <gluster at gluster.dogwind.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         If you need to reboot all bricks in a volume, what's the best
>         way to do
>         this seamlessly?
>         
>         I did this a few days ago by rebooting one, then waiting for
>         "gluster
>         volume info" on another brick to show it back online before
>         doing the
>         next, and so on. However, it went a bit wrong and I ended up
>         with a
>         corruption. It fixed itself after a while, but because the
>         system then
>         had a backlog of stuff to catch up with, it didn't fix itself
>         for about
>         a day.
>         
>         I wonder that I didn't leave enough time for the freshly
>         rebooted brick
>         to apply all of the updates to itself that happened while it
>         was
>         rebooting. So, what's the best way to find out whether a brick
>         has fully
>         synced itself with the other bricks, before rebooting the next
>         one?
>         
>         I need to avoid having to shut the volume down as it would
>         cause a
>         service outage.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Kingsley.
>         
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