On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 01/24/2018 07:20 PM, Hoggins! wrote: > > Hello, > > The subject says it all. I have a replica 3 cluster : > > gluster> volume info thedude > > Volume Name: thedude > Type: Replicate > Volume ID: bc68dfd3-94e2-4126-b04d-77b51ec6f27e > Status: Started > Snapshot Count: 0 > Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 3 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: ngluster-1.network.hoggins.fr:/export/brick/thedude > Brick2: ngluster-2.network.hoggins.fr:/export/brick/thedude > Brick3: ngluster-3.network.hoggins.fr:/export/brick/thedude > Options Reconfigured: > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > transport.address-family: inet > nfs.disable: on > performance.readdir-ahead: on > client.event-threads: 8 > server.event-threads: 15 > > > ... and I would like to replace, say ngluster-2 with an arbiter-only > node, without any data. Is that possible ? How ? > > Yes, you would need to reduce it to replica 2 and then convert it to > arbiter. > 1. Ensure there are no pending heals, i.e. heal info shows zero entries. > 2. gluster volume remove-brick thedude replica 2 > ngluster-3.network.hoggins.fr:/export/brick/thedude force > 3. gluster volume add-brick thedude replica 3 arbiter 1 <IP:brick path of > the new arbiter brick> > Would it be good to have this small sequence of steps noted down somewhere other than a mailing list archive? I imagine this is going to be sought out by a few more users choosing this course. _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
