<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi folks,</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I had a 2 node (1 brick each) replica, some network meltdown issues seemed to cause problems with second node (server02). glusterfsd process reaching 200-300% and errors relating to split brain possibilities and self heal errors.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Original volume info:</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>Volume Name: myvol</i></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><div><i>Type: Replicate</i></div><div><i>Status: Started</i></div><div><i>Number of Bricks: 2</i></div><div><i>Transport-type: tcp</i></div><div><i>Bricks:</i></div><div><i>Brick1: server01:/brick1</i></div><div><i>Brick2: server02:/brick1</i></div><div><br></div></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I removed the second brick (that was showing server problems).</span></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>gluster volume remove-brick myvol replica 1 server02:/brick1</i></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Now the volume status is:</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><div><i>Volume Name: tsfsvol0</i></div><div><i>Type: Distribute</i></div><div><i>Status: Started</i></div><div><i>Number of Bricks: 1</i></div><div><i>Transport-type: tcp</i></div><div><i>Bricks:</i></div><div><i>Brick1: server01:/brick1</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>All is fine and the data on working server is sound.</div><div><br></div><div>The xfs partition for <i>server02:/brick1</i> has been formatted and therefore the data gone. All other gluster config data has remained untouched. Can I re-add the second server to the volume with an empty brick and the data will auto replicate over from the working server?</div><div><br></div><div><i>gluster volume add-brick myvol replica 2 server2:/brick1 ??</i></div></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div><span name="x"></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">ALUN JAMES<br><font>Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><font>Tibus</font><br><br><font>T: +44 (0)28 9033 1122</font><br><font>E: ajames@tibus.com</font><br><font>W: </font><a href="http://www.tibus.com">www.tibus.com</a><br><br><font>Follow us on Twitter </font><a href="http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=tibus">@tibus</a><br><br><font>Tibus is a trading name of The Internet Business Ltd, a company limited by share capital and registered in Northern Ireland, NI31325. It is part of UTV Media Plc.</font><br><br><font>This email and any attachment may contain confidential information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorised to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. </font></font><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>