[Gluster-users] How to upgrade/re-install the OS on a gluster server?

[Joe Julian]

On 08/11/2016 02:05 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>
> Il 11 ago 2016 7:21 PM, "Dan Lavu" <dan at redhat.com 
> <mailto:dan at redhat.com>> ha scritto:
> >
> > Is it possible? Looking at everything, it just seems like I need the 
> content of the bricks and whatever is in /etc/glusterd and 
> /var/lib/glusterd maintaining the same hostname, IP and the same 
> Gluster version?
> >
> >
>
> Why not start from scratch and let gluster to heal when you add the 
> upgraded node back to the cluster?
>
>
Because "start from scratch" means changing hostnames. When you've got a 
strategy for naming hosts, assigning a hostname that doesn't fit that 
strategy breaks consistency. When you're managing hosts in 6 datacenters 
on 4 contenents, consistent naming is critical.

Having consistent names makes automated deployment (or redeployment) 
much easier to code when you're using mgmt, saltstack, ansible, puppet 
or even chef. This is also the same reason I use consistent naming for 
brick directories.

Gluster has never written replacement tools with same hostname and path 
as a possibility meaning that replace-brick doesn't work. Without being 
able to use replace-brick, self-heal doesn't know to heal that one 
single brick so heal...full is needed. Replace-brick is being changed to 
allow in-place replacement and solve that problem. Until then, Dan's 
process is perfectly reasonable and is the process that I use (more or 
less, I actually just template glusterd.info and rely on the sync 
process to fill the rest of /var/lib/glusterd).


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