I'm not a gluster developer and I haven't taken that decision. As we are talking about storage - it's better to play safe and avoid any risks . Imagine a distributed volume and you restart the service instead of reload ... Data will be unavailable and the situation can go ugly. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В четвъртък, 3 септември 2020 г., 10:11:42 Гринуич+3, Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@xxxxxxxxx> написа: Hi Strahil, On 2/09/2020 21:30, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > you shouldn't do that,as it is intentional - glusterd is just a management layer and you might need to restart it in order to reconfigure a node. You don't want to kill your bricks to introduce a change, right? Starting up daemons in one systemd unit and killing them with another is a bit weird? Can't a reconfigure happen through a ExecReload? Or let the management daemon and the actual brick daemons run under different systemd units? > In CentOS there is a dedicated service that takes care to shutdown all processes and avoid such freeze . Thanks, that should fix the issue too. Ward ________ Community Meeting Calendar: Schedule - Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968 Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users ________ Community Meeting Calendar: Schedule - Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968 Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users