[Gluster-users] Proper command for replace-brick on distribute–replicate?

[Ravishankar N]

On 12/06/19 1:38 PM, Alan Orth wrote:
> Dear Ravi,
>
> Thanks for the confirmation—I replaced a brick in a volume last night 
> and by the morning I see that Gluster has replicated data there, 
> though I don't have any indication of its progress. The `gluster v 
> heal volume info` and `gluster v heal volume info split-brain` are all 
> looking good so I guess that's enough of an indication.
Yes, right now, heal info showing no files is the indication. A new 
command for pending heal time estimation is something that is being 
worked upon. See https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/643
>
> One question, though. Immediately after I replaced the brick I checked 
> `gluster v status volume` and I saw the following:
>
> Task Status of Volume volume
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Task                 : Rebalance
> ID                   : a890e99c-5715-4bc1-80ee-c28490612135
> Status               : not started
>
> I did not initiate a rebalance, so it's strange to see it there. Is 
> Gluster hinting that I should start a rebalance? If a rebalance is 
> "not started" shouldn't Gluster just not show it at all?

`replace-brick` should not show rebalance status. Not sure why you're 
seeing it. Adding Nithya for help.

>
> Regarding the patch to the documentation: absolutely! Let me just get 
> my Gluster back in order after my confusing upgrade last month. :P

Great. Please send the PR for the 
https://github.com/gluster/glusterdocs/ project. I think 
docs/Administrator Guide/Managing Volumes.md is the file that needs to 
be updated.

-Ravi

>
> Thanks,
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 7:32 PM Ravishankar N <ravishankar at redhat.com 
> <mailto:ravishankar at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 11/06/19 9:11 PM, Alan Orth wrote:
>>     Dear list,
>>
>>     In a recent discussion on this list Ravi suggested that the
>>     documentation for replace-brick¹ was out of date. For a
>>     distribute–replicate volume the documentation currently says that
>>     we need to kill the old brick's PID, create a temporary empty
>>     directory on the FUSE mount, check the xattrs, replace-brick with
>>     commit force.
>>
>>     Is all this still necessary? I'm running Gluster 5.6 on CentOS 7
>>     with a distribute–replicate volume.
>     No,  all these very steps are 'codified' into the `replace brick
>     commit force` command via
>     https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/10076/ and
>     https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/10448/. You can see the
>     commit messages of these 2 patches for more details.
>
>     You can play around with most of these commands in a 1 node setup
>     if you want to convince yourself that they work. There is no need
>     to form a cluster.
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# gluster v create testvol replica 3
>     127.0.0.2:/home/ravi/bricks/brick{1..3} force
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# gluster v start testvol
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# mount -t glusterfs 127.0.0.2:testvol
>     /mnt/fuse_mnt/
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# touch /mnt/fuse_mnt/FILE
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# ll /home/ravi/bricks/brick*/FILE
>     -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 0 Jun 11 21:55 /home/ravi/bricks/brick1/FILE
>     -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 0 Jun 11 21:55 /home/ravi/bricks/brick2/FILE
>     -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 0 Jun 11 21:55 /home/ravi/bricks/brick3/FILE
>
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# gluster v replace-brick testvol
>     127.0.0.2:/home/ravi/bricks/brick3
>     127.0.0.2:/home/ravi/bricks/brick3_new commit force
>     volume replace-brick: success: replace-brick commit force
>     operation successful
>     [root at tuxpad glusterfs]# ll /home/ravi/bricks/brick3_new/FILE
>
>     -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 0 Jun 11 21:55
>     /home/ravi/bricks/brick3_new/FILE
>
>     Why don't you send a patch to update the doc for replace-brick?
>     I'd be happy to review it. ;-)
>     HTH,
>     Ravi
>>
>>     Thank you,
>>
>>     ¹ https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator Guide/Managing
>>     Volumes/
>>     -- 
>>     Alan Orth
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>
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