[Gluster-users] Replace-Brick usage

Brian Cipriano bcipriano at zerovfx.com
Fri Apr 27 18:22:42 UTC 2012


That's a good question, I'd be interested to hear how this works as well.

- brian

On 4/25/12 3:26 PM, Philip wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> here is what worries me: You start a replacement and will run until it
> is "complete" but after that you have to use the commit command. What
> happens with the changes that occur between the completed replace
> brick and the commit? Did you test the replace brick command while
> there are changes occurring on the FS?
>
> Am 25. April 2012 21:08 schrieb Philip<flips01 at googlemail.com>:
>> Hi Bryan,
>>
>> here is what worries me: You start a replacement and will run until it
>> is "complete" but after that you have to use the commit command. What
>> happens with the changes that occur between the completed replace
>> brick and the commit? Did you test the replace brick command while
>> there are changes occurring on the FS?
>>
>> Am 25. April 2012 07:15 schrieb Bryan Whitehead<driver at megahappy.net>:
>>> It is safe.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Philip<flips01 at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to replace servers in my cluster with the "replace brick"
>>>> command. I'm not sure if this command is safe to use when there are
>>>> changes on the FS e.g. new files or deletes. Can this command be
>>>> safely used under these circumstances or should I disable all writes
>>>> on the FS?
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