comments inline. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Atin Mukherjee" <atin.mukherjee83@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Nathan Hand (Business)" <nathanh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2015 8:08:19 PM Subject: Re: can you change a brick's mount point? Sent from Samsung Galaxy S4 On 7 Jun 2015 20:04, "Nathan Hand (Business)" < nathanh@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > I have a simple distributed volume with two bricks. > > # gluster volume info myvolume > Volume Name: myvolume > Type: Distribute > Volume ID: b0193509-817b-4f77-8f65-4cfeb384bedb > Status: Started > Number of Bricks: 2 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: zeus.lan:/mnt/pool-lvol1/brick0 > Brick2: io.lan:/data/glusterfs/myvolume/brick2/anchor > > I’d like to change Brick1’s path to follow Brick2’s naming convention, i.e. /data/glusterfs/myvolume/brick1/anchor > > I can easily change Brick1’s mount point, but I don’t know how to tell gluster about the new location. > > Options I’ve considered: > >> * Editing /var/lib/glusterd/vols by hand, but that could be foolish. > >* Adding brick3, removing brick1, adding brick1, removing brick3. By editing /var/lib/glusterd/vols you might miss something to edit. Adding and removing brick option seems good. >This looks to be the best option IMO. You could go for replace brick option but that doesnt protect you from data loss. > > Is there a better way? Preferably one that doesn’t need brick3 because I don’t have a brick that large lying around. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
