.gluster and attr already in that folder so it would not connect it as a brick I don't think there is option to "reconnect brick back" what I did many times - delete .gluster and reset attr on the folder, connect the brick and then update those attr. with stat commands example here http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-January/033352.html Vlad On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 4:37 AM, Mitja Mihelič <mitja.mihelic@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > I am running a replica 3 volume. On server2 I wanted to move the brick to a > new disk. > I removed the brick from the volume: > gluster volume remove-brick VOLUME rep 2 > server2:/gluster/VOLUME/brick0/brick force > > I unmounted the old brick and mounted the new disk to the same location. > I added the empty new brick to the volume: > gluster volume add-brick VOLUME rep 3 server2:/gluster/VOLUME/brick0/brick > > There is about 2TB of data on the volume and they are all small files, > photos and documents. The whole heal process is rather slow. In 10 hours > only 120GB was copied to the new brick. > I remove the new brick: > gluster volume remove-brick VOLUME rep 2 > server2:/gluster/VOLUME/brick0/brick force > > I remounted the old brick in its place. Now I would like to re-add the > existing old brick back to the volume, so I have a replica 3 again. > But the add operation fails with: > volume add-brick: failed: /gluster/VOLUME/brick0/brick is already part of a > volume > > How can I re-add this brick back to the volume, and how save is it? Can I > use force to add it? > There has been little to no data change on the volume since the old brick > was removed in the first place. > > Kind regards, > Mitja > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
