[Gluster-users] One volume gluster vol

[Mark s2c]

Thanks that worked, I only needed to edit in the hosts name in its own
hosts file and it worked fine with the one volume.



On 17/08/2015 12:18, "Kaushal M" <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hey Mark,
>
>Does the address `mybox` resolve on you system? Gluster requires a
>resolvable hostname to be used for bricks. If is doesn't resolve add
>an entry to your /etc/hosts. for eg. '127.0.0.1 mybox'. This allows
>the name to be resolved and gluster will allow you to create the
>volume. You will now be able to create your single brick volume using
>`gluster volume create <volume-name> mybox:/<brick-path>`
>
>If later you want to expand you cluster, you should make sure that the
>name `mybox` is resolvable from all other nodes to point to your first
>system.
>
>~kaushal
>
>On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Mark s2c <mark at stuff2cloud.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>> Thanks for the suggestions, but they don¹t work:
>>
>> [root at mybox ~]# gluster volume create myVol1 /gfs/mybox/brick1
>> Wrong brick type: /gfs/mybox/brick1, use
>><HOSTNAME>:<export-dir-abs-path>
>> Usage: volume create <NEW-VOLNAME> [stripe <COUNT>] [replica <COUNT>
>> [arbiter <COUNT>]] [disperse [<COUNT>]] [disperse-data <COUNT>]
>>[redundancy
>> <COUNT>] [transport <tcp|rdma|tcp,rdma>] <NEW-BRICK>?<vg_name>...
>>[force]
>>
>> [root at mybox ~]# gluster volume create myvol localhost:/gfs/mybox/brick1
>> Please provide a valid hostname/ip other than localhost, 127.0.0.1 or
>> loopback address (0.0.0.0 to 0.255.255.255).
>>
>> And as a recap, when I follow this form (which I did at first, hence the
>> post):
>> [root at mybox ~]# gluster volume create myvol1 mybox:/gfs/mybox/brick1
>> volume create: myvol1: failed: Host mybox is not in 'Peer in Cluster¹
>>state
>>
>> Any other alternative suggestions would be useful.
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> From: Jordan Willis <jwillis0720 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Saturday, 15 August 2015 11:02
>> To: Mark Lewis <mark at stuff2cloud.com>
>> Cc: Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com>,
>>"Gluster-users at gluster.org"
>> <Gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] One volume gluster vol
>>
>> If you are creating a volume that your brick is already mounted on, I¹m
>>not
>> even sure you have to give it a hostname.
>>
>> gluster volume create myVol1 /gfs/mybox/brick1
>>
>>
>> or
>>
>> gluster volume create myVol1 localhost:/gfs/mybox/brick1
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2015, at 2:37 AM, Mark s2c <mark at stuff2cloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> [root at mybox ~]# df -h
>> Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/centos-root   50G  1.3G   49G   3% /
>> devtmpfs                 7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
>> tmpfs                    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
>> tmpfs                    7.8G  8.7M  7.8G   1% /run
>> tmpfs                    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>> /dev/sda1                497M  164M  334M  33% /boot
>> /dev/mapper/centos-home  166G   33M  166G   1% /home
>> /dev/mapper/brick1        17T   34M   17T   1% /gfs/mybox/brick1
>> [root at mybox ~]# !531
>> gluster volume create myVol1 mybox:/gfs/mybox/brick1
>> volume create: myVol1: failed: Host mybox is not in 'Peer in Cluster¹
>>state
>>
>> Can you give me the command cos I can only find one instance of it on
>>the
>> net and it¹s this one.
>>
>> Much obliged.
>>
>> From: Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Friday, 14 August 2015 15:17
>> To: Mark Lewis <mark at stuff2cloud.com>
>> Cc: "Gluster-users at gluster.org" <Gluster-users at gluster.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] One volume gluster vol
>>
>> Can you please detail the exact issue. I don't see any issue in setting
>>a
>> single node cluster apart from sacrificing high availability.
>> -Atin
>> Sent from one plus one
>> On Aug 14, 2015 1:06 PM, "Mark s2c" <mark at stuff2cloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello can I create a one volume gfs vol?
>>> As I have no peer, I appear to only have local host and even if I
>>> reference it with its host name as the error says, it doesn't work. Is
>>>it
>>> even possible or do I need a second server?
>>>
>>> We've just bought a big box so a second would be a big outlay. Could I
>>>use
>>> a VM with disproportionate bricks just to get the peerage set up and
>>>then
>>> remove one of the members?
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