[Gluster-users] not able to use gluster if one of the nodes offline

Mohit Anchlia mohitanchlia at gmail.com
Fri May 27 23:21:17 UTC 2011


There seems to be some problem with your setup. Can you look at your
/etc/hosts file and see if it's setup correctly on web3-int?

Also, post output of gluster peer status, gluster volume info, ping
web3-int, ping web4-int from the surviving node.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using glusterfs 3.1.4 and just discovered that the whole is unusable if
> the second gluster server dies (using distributed replica).
>
> I have two gluster servers, called web3-int and web4-int.
>
> Whenever web4-int is not reachable, I'm not able to start glusterfs on
> web3-int.
>
> On web3-int, it fails with the following info in the log:
>
> glusterd: cannot resolve brick: web3-int:/home/gluster-data
>
>
>
> The workaround for this problem was "easy" (well, after spending some time
> debugging...) - manually adding a file with web3-int's UID to
> /etc/glusterd/peers directory. Why manually? Because according to "gluster
> peer probe" command, doing this for localhost is not needed:
>
> # gluster peer probe web3-int
> Probe on localhost not needed
>
>
> However, without localhost's file in /etc/glusterd/peers directory, glusterd
> on web3-int is not able to work properly, if web4-int is down.
>
>
> Is it expected?
>
>
> --
> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org
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