Does anyone else have input?
we are currently only running off 1 node and one node is offline in replicate
brick.
we are not experiencing any downtime because the 1 node is up.
I do not understand which is the best way to bring up a second node.
Do we just re create a file system on the node that is down and the mount
points and allow gluster to heal( my concern with this is whether the node that
is down will some how take precedence and wipe out the data on the healthy node
instead of vice versa)
Or do we fully wipe out the config on the node that is down, re create the file
system and re add the node that is down into gluster using the add brick
command replica 3, and then wait for it to heal then run the remove brick
command for the failed brick
which would be the safest and easiest to accomplish
thanks for any input
From: "Leno Vo"
To: "Andres E. Moya"
Cc: "gluster-users"
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 6:45:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Failed file system
if you don't want any downtime (in the case that your node 2 really die), you
have to create a new gluster san (if you have the resources of course, 3 nodes
as much as possible this time), and then just migrate your vms (or files),
therefore no downtime but you have to cross your finger that the only node will
not die too... also without sharding the vm migration especially an rdp one,
will be slow access from users till it migrated.
you have to start testing sharding, it's fast and cool...
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 2:51 PM, Andres E. Moya
wrote:
couldnt we just add a new server by
gluster peer probe
gluster volume add-brick replica 3 (will this command succeed with 1 current
failed brick?)
let it heal, then
gluster volume remove remove-brick
From: "Leno Vo"
To: "Andres E. Moya" , "gluster-users"
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 1:26:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Failed file system
you need to have a downtime to recreate the second node, two nodes is actually
not good for production and you should have put raid 1 or raid 5 as your
gluster storage, when you recreate the second node you might try running some
VMs that need to be up and rest of vm need to be down but stop all backup and
if you have replication, stop it too. if you have 1G nic, 2cpu and less 8Gram,
then i suggest all turn off the VMs during recreation of second node. someone
said if you have sharding with 3.7.x, maybe some vip vm can be up...
if it just a filesystem, then just turn off the backup service until you
recreate the second node. depending on your resources and how big is your
storage, it might be hours to recreate it and even days...
here's my process on recreating the second or third node (copied and modifed
from the net),
#make sure partition is already added
This procedure is for replacing a failed server, IF your newly installed server
has the same hostname as the failed one:
(If your new server will have a different hostname, see this article instead.)
For purposes of this example, the server that crashed will be server3 and the
other servers will be server1 and server2
On both server1 and server2, make sure hostname server3 resolves to the correct
IP address of the new replacement server.
#On either server1 or server2, do
grep server3 /var/lib/glusterd/peers/*
This will return a uuid followed by ":hostname1=server3"
#On server3, make sure glusterd is stopped, then do
echo UUID={uuid from previous step}>/var/lib/glusterd/glusterd.info
#actual testing below,
[root@node1 ~]# cat /var/lib/glusterd/glusterd.info
UUID=4b9d153c-5958-4dbe-8f91-7b5002882aac
operating-version=30710
#the second line is new. maybe not needed...
On server3:
make sure that all brick directories are created/mounted
start glusterd
peer probe one of the existing servers
#restart glusterd, check that full peer list has been populated using
gluster peer status
(if peers are missing, probe them explicitly, then restart glusterd again)
#check that full volume configuration has been populated using
gluster volume info
if volume configuration is missing, do
#on the other node
gluster volume sync "replace-node" all
#on the node to be replaced
setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.volume-id -v 0x$(grep volume-id
/var/lib/glusterd/vols/v1/info | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/-//g') /gfs/b1/v1
setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.volume-id -v 0x$(grep volume-id
/var/lib/glusterd/vols/v2/info | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/-//g') /gfs/b2/v2
setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.volume-id -v 0x$(grep volume-id
/var/lib/glusterd/vols/config/info | cut -d= -f2 | sed 's/-//g')
/gfs/b1/config/c1
mount -t glusterfs localhost:config /data/data1
#install ctdb if not yet installed and put it back online, use the step on
creating the ctdb config but