> Since I have replication 'ON', there is no downtime as the brick on the second node serves well, but I want the redundancy/replication to be restored with the introduction of a new node (#3) in the cluster. > Exactly if its in Cloud then the disk be it EBS blocks which can be reattached back to the new server and you can do a replace-brick even when the old-brick is dead/unreachable. If there are no EBS blocks, then sure there should be a mechanism to reattach the brick associated with that instance. > I would hope there is a gluster command to just forget about the dead node's brick, and pick up the new brick and start replicating/serving from the new Gluster cannot decide as it has no awareness that it is in Cloud or a Bare metal or a KVM setup. So right now the above procedure stands good. -Harsha
