[Gluster-users] delete brick / format / add empty brick

Bobby Jacob bobby.jacob at alshaya.com
Wed Jan 8 04:25:37 UTC 2014


Hi,

Alun, I also seem to have the same problem with one of the nodes.  Please let me know if the below mentioned steps work for you. ?

Thanks & Regards,
Bobby Jacob

From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Ravishankar N
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:01 AM
To: Alun James
Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] delete brick / format / add empty brick

On 01/07/2014 09:40 PM, Alun James wrote:
Hi folks,

I had a 2 node (1 brick each) replica, some network meltdown issues seemed to cause problems with second node (server02). glusterfsd process reaching 200-300% and errors relating to split brain possibilities and self heal errors.

Original volume info:

Volume Name: myvol
Type: Replicate
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 2
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: server01:/brick1
Brick2: server02:/brick1

I removed the second brick (that was showing server problems).

gluster volume remove-brick myvol replica 1 server02:/brick1

Now the volume status is:

Volume Name: tsfsvol0
Type: Distribute
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 1
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: server01:/brick1

All is fine and the data on working server is sound.

The xfs partition for server02:/brick1 has been formatted and therefore the data gone. All other gluster config data has remained untouched. Can I re-add the second server to the volume with an empty brick and the data will auto replicate over from the working server?

gluster volume add-brick myvol replica 2 server2:/brick1 ??


Yes this should work fine. You will need to run a  `gluster volume heal myvol full` to manually trigger the replication.




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