[Gluster-users] Number of Bricks 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 and arbiter disappearing

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 05/11/2016 08:48 PM, Nicola Petracchi wrote:
> 2016-05-11 16:42 GMT+02:00 Atin Mukherjee <amukherj at redhat.com>:
>>> I'm not sure why op-version is 2 despite a fresh 3.7.11 install. I've
>>> CC'ed some glusterd devs who can possibly chime-in.
>>> So that is the problem. The "arbiter_count=1" is persisted in vol info
>>> only when op-version is >=3.7.6.
>> it seems like although its a fresh install but this node is receiving
>> friend request from the peers where this node was part of the cluster
>> earlier. If this cluster is running with a lower op-version then
>> op-version will be lowered down for this node and that could be the
>> case. Check glusterd log of this node and you should be able to see the
>> incoming friend request messages in the log to prove it.
> 
> Should I purge the package + every configuration files and restart
> with configuration (a lot of headaches in trying to move files out and
> in of the volumes), or, is there a solution to upgrade the op-version?
> 
> On my local machine with a fresh install from the same PPA I got
> operating-version=30710
You'd need to ensure that this node doesn't receive friend request from
unwanted nodes. Make sure you first detach this node from the existing
cluster and then change the op-version in
/var/lib/glusterd/glusterd.info file and restart glusterd service. That
should solve your problem.
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