[Gluster-users] Gluster in a cluster

[Jerome]

Dear all

I'm testing Gluster in a cluster of compute nodes, based on Rocks. The 
idea is to use the scratch of each nodes as a big volume for scratch. It 
permit to access to this scratch system file on all the nodes of the 
cluster.
For the moment, i have installed this gluster system on 4 nodes, ona 
distributed replica of 2, like this:

# gluster volume info

Volume Name: scratch1
Type: Distributed-Replicate
Volume ID: c8c3e3fe-c785-4438-86eb-0b84c7c29123
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 2 x 2 = 4
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: compute-2-0:/state/partition1/scratch
Brick2: compute-2-1:/state/partition1/scratch
Brick3: compute-2-6:/state/partition1/scratch
Brick4: compute-2-9:/state/partition1/scratch

# gluster volume status
Status of volume: scratch1
Gluster process						Port	Online	Pid
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brick compute-2-0:/state/partition1/scratch		24009	Y	16464
Brick compute-2-1:/state/partition1/scratch		24009	Y	3848
Brick compute-2-6:/state/partition1/scratch		24009	Y	511
Brick compute-2-9:/state/partition1/scratch		24009	Y	2086
NFS Server on localhost					38467	N	4060
Self-heal Daemon on localhost				N/A	N	4065
NFS Server on compute-2-0				38467	Y	16470
Self-heal Daemon on compute-2-0				N/A	Y	16476
NFS Server on compute-2-9				38467	Y	2092
Self-heal Daemon on compute-2-9				N/A	Y	2099
NFS Server on compute-2-6				38467	Y	517
Self-heal Daemon on compute-2-6				N/A	Y	524
NFS Server on compute-2-1				38467	Y	3854
Self-heal Daemon on compute-2-1				N/A	Y	3860


All of this run correctly, i used some stress file to advise that 
configuration could be runnable.
My problem is when a node reboot accidentaly, or for some administration 
task: the node reinstall itself, and the gluster volume begin to 
fail.... I detect taht the UUID of a machine is generated during the 
instalation, so i develop some script to get back the original UUID of 
the node. Despote this, the node could not get back in the volume. I 
miss some special task to do. So, it is possible to do a such system 
with gluster? or maybe i have to reconfigure all of the voluem when a 
node reinstall?

Best regards.



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-- Jérôme
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