[Gluster-users] Manually delete .glusterfs/changelogs directory ?

[Everton Brogliatto]

The RedHat documentation has a good process on how to clean a unusable
brick:

5.4.4. Cleaning An Unusable Brick
If the file system associated with the brick cannot be reformatted, and the
brick directory cannot be removed,
perform the following steps:
1 Delete all previously existing data in the brick, including the
.glusterfs subdirectory.

2 Run
 # setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id brick
  and
 # setfattr -x trusted.gfid brick
  to remove the attributes from the root of the brick.

3 Run
 # getfattr -d -m . brick
  to examine the attributes set on the volume. Take note of the attributes.

4 Run
 # setfattr -x attribute brick
  to remove the attributes relating to the glusterFS file system.
  The trusted.glusterfs.dht attribute for a distributed volume is one such
example of attributes that need to be removed.


https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.2/pdf/administration_guide/Red_Hat_Gluster_Storage-3.2-Administration_Guide-en-US.pdf#%23Formatting_and_Mounting_Bricks-Reusing_a_brick

Regards,
Everton Brogliatto

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Everton Brogliatto <brogliatto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mabi,
>
> If you will not use that geo-replication volume session again, I believe
> it is safe to manually delete the files in the brick directory using rm -rf.
>
> However, the gluster documentation specifies that if the session is to be
> permanently deleted, this is the command to use:
> gluster volume geo-replication gv1 snode1::gv2 delete reset-sync-time
>
> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%
> 20Guide/Geo%20Replication/#deleting-the-session
>
> Regards,
> Everton Brogliatto
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:15 AM, mabi <mabi at protonmail.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hi, has anyone any advice to give about my question below? Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Manually delete .glusterfs/changelogs directory ?
>> Local Time: August 16, 2017 5:59 PM
>> UTC Time: August 16, 2017 3:59 PM
>> From: mabi at protonmail.ch
>> To: Gluster Users <gluster-users at gluster.org>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just deleted (permanently) my geo-replication session using the
>> following command:
>>
>> gluster volume geo-replication myvolume gfs1geo.domain.tld::myvolume-geo
>> delete
>>
>>
>>
>> and noticed that the .glusterfs/changelogs on my volume still exists. Is
>> it safe to delete the whole directly myself with "rm -rf
>> .glusterfs/changelogs" ? As far as I understand the CHANGELOG.* files are
>> only needed for geo-replication, correct?
>>
>> Finally shouldn't the geo-replication delete command I used above delete
>> these files automatically for me?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mabi
>>
>>
>>
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