[Gluster-users] cannot create a new volume with a brick that used to be part of a deleted volume?

[Kaleb Keithley]

There are xattrs on the top-level directory of the old brick volume that gluster is detecting causing this.

I personally always create my bricks on a subdir. If you do that you can simply rmdir/mkdir the directory when you want to delete a gluster volume.

You can clear the xattrs or "nuke it from orbit" with mkfs on the volume device.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com>
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:03:35 PM
Subject: [Gluster-users] cannot create a new volume with a brick that used to be part of a deleted volume?

Greetings,
I'm running v3.3.0 on Fedora16-x86_64.  I used to have a replicated
volume on two bricks.  This morning I deleted it successfully:
########
[root at farm-ljf0 ~]# gluster volume stop gv0
Stopping volume will make its data inaccessible. Do you want to
continue? (y/n) y
Stopping volume gv0 has been successful
[root at farm-ljf0 ~]# gluster volume delete gv0
Deleting volume will erase all information about the volume. Do you
want to continue? (y/n) y
Deleting volume gv0 has been successful
[root at farm-ljf0 ~]# gluster volume info all
No volumes present
########

I then attempted to create a new volume using the same bricks that
used to be part of the (now) deleted volume, but it keeps refusing &
failing claiming that the brick is already part of a volume:
########
[root at farm-ljf1 ~]# gluster volume create gv0 rep 2 transport tcp
10.31.99.165:/mnt/sdb1 10.31.99.166:/mnt/sdb1
/mnt/sdb1 or a prefix of it is already part of a volume
[root at farm-ljf1 ~]# gluster volume info all
No volumes present
########

Note farm-ljf0 is 10.31.99.165 and farm-ljf1 is 10.31.99.166.  I also
tried restarting glusterd (and glusterfsd) hoping that might clear
things up, but it had no impact.

How can /mnt/sdb1 be part of a volume when there are no volumes present?
Is this a bug, or am I just missing something obvious?

thanks
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