<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had a node that was attached but not functioning properly. In this case the gluster daemon itself wouldn't launch giving this at startup: <a href="http://pastebin.com/rnsMNGBT">http://pastebin.com/rnsMNGBT</a><div><br></div><div>I went into /var/lib/glusterd and removed everything under peers/volumes - thus allowing the daemon to start cleanly. </div><div><br></div><div>After doing a gluster volume sync from a known good peer - everything appears normal except I cannot add any new volumes using that peer:</div><div><br></div><div>volume create: perftest: failed: Host cs75-i is not in 'Peer in Cluster' state</div><div><br></div><div>Peer status reads:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Hostname: cs75-i</div><div>Uuid: 339280d7-b4d3-414b-be84-e8e4638f3751</div><div>State: Accepted peer request (Connected)</div></div><div><br></div><div>restarting the daemon again on cs75-i yields:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Hostname: cs75-i</div><div>Uuid: 339280d7-b4d3-414b-be84-e8e4638f3751</div><div>State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)</div></div><div><br></div><div>To which I then receive:</div><div><br></div><div>volume create: perftest: success: please start the volume to access data</div><div><br></div><div>The questions is, what is the difference between these two states, and why does a simple restart on the daemon correct the issue?</div></body></html>