[Gluster-users] Volume creation fails with "prefix of it is already part of a volume"

Anand Avati anand.avati at gmail.com
Thu Aug 22 06:23:14 UTC 2013


This is intentional behavior. We specifically brought this because creating
volumes with directories which are subdirectories of other bricks, or if a
subdirectory belongs to another brick can result in dangerous corruption of
your data.

Please create volumes with brick directories which are cleanly separate in
the namespace.

Avati


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Stroppa Daniele (strp) <strp at zhaw.ch>wrote:

> Thanks Daniel.
>
> I'm indeed running Gluster 3.4 on CentOS 6.4.
>
> I've tried your suggestion, it does work for me too, but it's not an
> optimal solution.
>
> Maybe someone could shed some light on this behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Daniele Stroppa
> Researcher
> Institute of Information Technology
> Zürich University of Applied Sciences
> http://www.cloudcomp.ch <http://www.cloudcomp.ch/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 21/08/2013 09:00, "Daniel Müller" <mueller at tropenklinik.de> wrote:
>
> >Are you running with gluster 3.4?
> >I had the same issue. I solved it by deleting my subfolders again and then
> >create new ones. In your case brick1 and brick2.
> >Then create new subfolders in the place,ex.: mkdir /mnt/bricknew1  and
> >/mnt/bricknew2 .
> >This solved the problem for me, not knowing why gluster 3.4 behave like
> >this.
> >Good Luck
> >
> >
> >EDV Daniel Müller
> >
> >Leitung EDV
> >Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
> >Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
> >72076 Tübingen
> >Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
> >eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
> >Internet: www.tropenklinik.de
> >
> >Von: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> >[mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] Im Auftrag von Stroppa Daniele
> >(strp)
> >Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. August 2013 21:51
> >An: gluster-users at gluster.org
> >Betreff: [Gluster-users] Volume creation fails with "prefix of it is
> >already
> >part of a volume"
> >
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I'm setting up a small test cluster: 2 nodes (gluster-node1 and
> >gluster-node4) with 2 bricks each (/mnt/brick1 and /mnt/brick2) and one
> >volume (vol_icclab). When I issue the create volume command I get the
> >following error:
> >
> ># gluster volume create vol_icclab replica 2 transport tcp
> >gluster-node4.test:/mnt/brick1/vol_icclab
> >gluster-node1.test:/mnt/brick1/vol_icclab
> >gluster-node4.test:/mnt/brick2/vol_icclab
> >gluster-node1.test:/mnt/brick2/vol_icclab
> >volume create: vol_icclab: failed: /mnt/brick1/vol_icclab or a prefix of
> >it
> >is already part of a volume
> >
> >I checked and found this [1], but in my case the issue it's happening when
> >creating the volume for the first time, not after removing/adding a brick
> >to
> >a volume.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >[1]
> >http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-p
> >art-of-a-volume/
> >
> >Thanks,
> >--
> >Daniele Stroppa
> >Researcher
> >Institute of Information Technology
> >Zürich University of Applied Sciences
> >http://www.cloudcomp.ch
> >
> >
>
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