Assuming you used raid1 (distribute), you DO bring up the new machine and start gluster. On one of your gluster mounts you run a ls -alR and it will resync the new node. The gluster clients are smart enough to get the files from the first node. liam On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Chad <ccolumbu at hotmail.com> wrote: > Ok, so assuming you have N glusterfsd servers (say 2 cause it does not > really matter). > Now one of the servers dies. > You repair the machine and bring it back up. > > I think 2 things: > 1. You should not start glusterfsd on boot (you need to sync the HD first) > 2. When it is up how do you re-sync it? > > Do you rsync the underlying mount points? > If it is a busy gluster cluster it will be getting new files all the time. > So how do you sync and bring it back up safely so that clients don't connect > to an incomplete server? > > ^C > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
