[Gluster-users] Can't replace dead peer/brick

[Bryan Murphy]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Bryan Murphy <bmurphy1976 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Vikas Gorur <vikas at gluster.com> wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> Replace-brick is not what you need here. Replace-brick is designed to be
>> used for a planned decommissioning of a node and migration of data from it
>> to a new node. You can only use replace-brick when both the source and the
>> target servers are up and running.
>>
>> If you have a catastrophic failure where one of the servers gets its OS
>> disk completely wiped, you need to do this:
>>
>>
>> http://europe.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Brick_Restoration_-_Replace_Crashed_Server
>>
>>
I finally got around to following up on this.  I provisioned a new cluster
(using static hostnames), killed a server, replaced it, assigned the old
hostname and guid and am now rebuilding the cluster successfully.

Thanks for the help,
Bryan
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