<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Ok, I found the issue in the end, with a little help from:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-part-of-a-volume/">http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-part-of-a-volume/</a></div><div><br></div><div>So it appears that glusterfs sets an attribute on the path that it adds as a volume. This is nice, but could it remove it again if the volume creation fails?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, it would be great is the volume create command gave a message like:</div><div><br></div><div>srv14:/content/sg13/vd00 or a prefix of it is already marked as part of a volume (extended attribute trusted.glusterfs.volume-id exists on /content/sg13/vd00)</div><div><br></div><div>So we could be pointed in the right direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><br><div><div>On Aug 9, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Jeff Williams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>There is something strange going on here, and I hoped someone could point me in the right direction:<br><br>srv14# gluster volume create content replica 2 transport tcp srv13:/content/sg13/vd00 srv14:/content/sg13/vd00<br>Operation failed on 10.20.20.52<br>srv14# gluster volume create content replica 2 transport tcp srv13:/content/sg13/vd00 srv14:/content/sg13/vd00<br>/content/sg13/vd00 or a prefix of it is already part of a volume<br>srv14 # gluster volume list <br>No volumes present in cluster<br><br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>Jeff</div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>