There are xattrs on the top-level directory of the old brick volume that gluster is detecting causing this. I personally always create my bricks on a subdir. If you do that you can simply rmdir/mkdir the directory when you want to delete a gluster volume. You can clear the xattrs or "nuke it from orbit" with mkfs on the volume device. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lonni J Friedman" <netllama at gmail.com> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:03:35 PM Subject: cannot create a new volume with a brick that used to be part of a deleted volume? Greetings, I'm running v3.3.0 on Fedora16-x86_64. I used to have a replicated volume on two bricks. This morning I deleted it successfully: ######## [root at farm-ljf0 ~]# gluster volume stop gv0 Stopping volume will make its data inaccessible. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y Stopping volume gv0 has been successful [root at farm-ljf0 ~]# gluster volume delete gv0 Deleting volume will erase all information about the volume. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y Deleting volume gv0 has been successful [root at farm-ljf0 ~]# gluster volume info all No volumes present ######## I then attempted to create a new volume using the same bricks that used to be part of the (now) deleted volume, but it keeps refusing & failing claiming that the brick is already part of a volume: ######## [root at farm-ljf1 ~]# gluster volume create gv0 rep 2 transport tcp 10.31.99.165:/mnt/sdb1 10.31.99.166:/mnt/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 or a prefix of it is already part of a volume [root at farm-ljf1 ~]# gluster volume info all No volumes present ######## Note farm-ljf0 is 10.31.99.165 and farm-ljf1 is 10.31.99.166. I also tried restarting glusterd (and glusterfsd) hoping that might clear things up, but it had no impact. How can /mnt/sdb1 be part of a volume when there are no volumes present? Is this a bug, or am I just missing something obvious? thanks _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
