[Gluster-users] Clarification on common tasks

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2016-08-11 16:13 GMT+02:00 Anuradha Talur <atalur at redhat.com>:
> There was a document that I'm not able to locate right now.
> The first step after mounting the brick was to set volume ID using
> setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.volume-id -v <volume-id> <brickpath>.
> I think there were more steps, I will update once I find the doc.
> Once all the required xattrs are set, gluster v start force was supposed to be done.

This is a test environment so I can break everything everytime.
I did (only once) "replace-brick" by using a new mount point, without
setting any fattr and
brick process was brought up immediatly and healing is going on.

Is setfattr mandatory ?