On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/16/2013 04:24 PM, Diego Lendoiro wrote: > >> Hello everyone; >> >> First I would like to congratulate all the gluster community for such a >> project. I have been using gluster for a while and I am very happy with >> it :-) >> >> I am facing the following situation in a gluster distributed volume >> deploy that currently uses gluster 3.4.0 and native gluster clients. >> >> For some reason, which I don't know yet, configuration files >> (/var/lib/glusterd/) have been damaged so the volumes config is lost but >> the data remains intact. >> > > You could have possibly re-generated the configuration files by performing > a volume set option: > > #gluster volume set <volname> network.ping-timeout 42 > > would have created the configuration files back. > > Nice, I will keep this in mind for future crashes :-) > > >> I have been advised in #gluster that I can recreate the volumes without >> losing the data. I have followed this procedure: >> >> 0.Create a backup of each brick. >> 1.Umounting the partitions that contain the gluster volumes. >> 2.Create the distributed volume again in the same mount point that it >> was previously. >> 3.Mount the data. >> 4.Start the volume. >> >> Step 4 was outputing an error regarding the volume-id so I followed the >> instructions from Joe Julian's website: >> http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of- >> it-is-already-part-of-a-volume/ >> >> After a while I managed to start the volume and mount the data in my >> clients but I have some inconsistencies like some files are missing in >> some of the bricks. >> > > Are files missing in the bricks or are they missing when seen from native > gluster clients? If files are not being seen from the native clients, it is > more likely that a glusterfsd server is not online. Does gluster volume > status report that all processes are online for this volume? > Seems like the processes are online: gluster volume status Status of volume: work Gluster process Port Online Pid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brick st0:/mnt/shared/work 49152 Y 18450 Brick st1:/mnt/shared/work 49152 Y 12370 NFS Server on localhost 2049 Y 18598 NFS Server on st1 2049 Y 12575 There are no active volume tasks Since I have backed up all the data in two usb disks I am considering to recreate again the volumes and restore from backups. Thanks for all the help Vijay :-) Regards. > > Regards, > Vijay > -- Diego Lendoiro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20131118/60f5c299/attachment.html>
