[Gluster-users] replace brick in distributed-dispersed setup

[Vijay Bellur]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:10 AM, itlinux_team <itlinux at imppc.org> wrote:
> Hi Ashish,
>
> It was an error on my side, nothing gluster related. The kernel version I
> was running had a bug that prevented the fuse module from loading and
> causing the brick replacement errors. After upgrading I can confirm that the
> process of replacing the brick works fine both with the brick to be replaced
> online or after killing the brick process.
>
> I have a question though. In a real (non virtual) server, if I setup the
> server in JBOD mode, and a drive fails, does gluster kill the brick pid?
>

Yes, Gluster's brick failure detection feature [1] takes care of
killing the brick process on failed/bad storage.

Regards,
Vijay

[1] http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Brick_Failure_Detection