[Gluster-users] Creating volume when peer is down

[Vijay Bellur]

On 10/08/2013 05:50 PM, Maciej Gałkiewicz wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to create volume even though one of bricks is down? I
> have automated the process of creating volumes and downtime of the brick
> breaks it.
>

volume specific extended attributes are written on brick directories at 
the time of volume creation. This information is subsequently used for 
validation at the time of starting a volume.

Do you really want to create/start a brick on a peer that is offline?

Regards,
Vijay