<div dir="ltr">This is intentional behavior. We specifically brought this because creating volumes with directories which are subdirectories of other bricks, or if a subdirectory belongs to another brick can result in dangerous corruption of your data.<div>
<br></div><div>Please create volumes with brick directories which are cleanly separate in the namespace.</div><div><br></div><div>Avati</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Stroppa Daniele (strp) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:strp@zhaw.ch" target="_blank">strp@zhaw.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Daniel.<br>
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I'm indeed running Gluster 3.4 on CentOS 6.4.<br>
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I've tried your suggestion, it does work for me too, but it's not an<br>
optimal solution.<br>
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Maybe someone could shed some light on this behaviour?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
--<br>
Daniele Stroppa<br>
Researcher<br>
Institute of Information Technology<br>
Zürich University of Applied Sciences<br>
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On 21/08/2013 09:00, "Daniel Müller" <<a href="mailto:mueller@tropenklinik.de">mueller@tropenklinik.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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>Are you running with gluster 3.4?<br>
>I had the same issue. I solved it by deleting my subfolders again and then<br>
>create new ones. In your case brick1 and brick2.<br>
>Then create new subfolders in the place,ex.: mkdir /mnt/bricknew1 and<br>
>/mnt/bricknew2 .<br>
>This solved the problem for me, not knowing why gluster 3.4 behave like<br>
>this.<br>
>Good Luck<br>
><br>
><br>
>EDV Daniel Müller<br>
><br>
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>Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus<br>
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><br>
>Von: <a href="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org">gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org</a><br>
>[mailto:<a href="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org">gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org</a>] Im Auftrag von Stroppa Daniele<br>
>(strp)<br>
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. August 2013 21:51<br>
>An: <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br>
>Betreff: [Gluster-users] Volume creation fails with "prefix of it is<br>
>already<br>
>part of a volume"<br>
><br>
>Hi All,<br>
><br>
>I'm setting up a small test cluster: 2 nodes (gluster-node1 and<br>
>gluster-node4) with 2 bricks each (/mnt/brick1 and /mnt/brick2) and one<br>
>volume (vol_icclab). When I issue the create volume command I get the<br>
>following error:<br>
><br>
># gluster volume create vol_icclab replica 2 transport tcp<br>
>gluster-node4.test:/mnt/brick1/vol_icclab<br>
>gluster-node1.test:/mnt/brick1/vol_icclab<br>
>gluster-node4.test:/mnt/brick2/vol_icclab<br>
>gluster-node1.test:/mnt/brick2/vol_icclab<br>
>volume create: vol_icclab: failed: /mnt/brick1/vol_icclab or a prefix of<br>
>it<br>
>is already part of a volume<br>
><br>
>I checked and found this [1], but in my case the issue it's happening when<br>
>creating the volume for the first time, not after removing/adding a brick<br>
>to<br>
>a volume.<br>
><br>
>Any suggestions?<br>
><br>
>[1]<br>
><a href="http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-p" target="_blank">http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-p</a><br>
>art-of-a-volume/<br>
><br>
>Thanks,<br>
>--<br>
>Daniele Stroppa<br>
>Researcher<br>
>Institute of Information Technology<br>
>Zürich University of Applied Sciences<br>
><a href="http://www.cloudcomp.ch" target="_blank">http://www.cloudcomp.ch</a><br>
><br>
><br>
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