Re: Out of space, rebalance and possibly split-brain issues

[Lysa Milch <Lysa.Milch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great.   Given this information, is it safe/recommended to run the rebalance on the second peer while the first one is still going?

From: Kaushal M <kshlmster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:05:52 +0530
To: Chris Dixon <lysa.milch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx" <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Out of space, rebalance and possibly split-brain issues

Rebalance in gluster-3.2 isn't distributed. The rebalance process is

started only on the peer where the rebalance start command was run.

This is unlike, gluster-3.3 and above where rebalance is distributed

and a rebalance process is started on all peers having bricks of a

volume.

~kaushal

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Lysa Milch <Lysa.Milch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,

This morning I noticed that although my gluster vol was only at 60%, two

individual bricks ( one on each replication server) were at 100%.  I ran a

re-balance on the first server, and am seeing ( what I hope to be ) good

progress.

/dev/xvdc                                          1.0T  399G  626G  39%

/brick1

/dev/xvdf                                          1.0T  398G  627G  39%

/brick3

/dev/xvdg                                          1.0T  299G  726G  30%

/brick5

brick5 was initially at 100%, so this is all well.

My question is, the 100% brick on my second gluster server is still at 100%

and if I run a:

volume rebalance myvol status

On the second box, no rebalance is running.

1)  Is this normal, or do I have another problem I am not aware of?

2)  Should I start a rebalance on the second box while the first is running,

or should I wait?

Thank you for any information you can share.

gluster --version

glusterfs 3.2.5 built on Jan 31 2012 07:39:59

gluster peer  status

Number of Peers: 1

Hostname: myhost.domain.com

Uuid: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

State: Establishing Connection (Connected)

gluster volume info

Volume Name: myvol

Type: Distributed-Replicate

Status: Started

Number of Bricks: 3 x 2 = 6

Transport-type: tcp

Bricks:

Brick1: host1.domain.com:/brick1

Brick2: host2.domain.com:/brick2

Brick3: host1.domain.com:/brick3

Brick2: host2.domain.com:/brick4

Brick1: host1.domain.com:/brick5

Brick2: host2.domain.com:/brick6

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