<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Actually we have some other files related to system initial configuration for that we<br></div>need to format the volume where these bricks are also created and after this we are <br></div>facing some abnormal behavior in gluster and some failure logs like volume ID mismatch something.<br><br></div>That is why I am asking this is the right way to format volume where bricks are created.<br><br></div>and also is there any link between /var/lib/glusterd and xattr stored in .glusterfs directory at brick path.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Abhishek<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Atin Mukherjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amukherj@redhat.com" target="_blank">amukherj@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And most importantly why would you do that? What's your use case Abhishek?<br>
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On 05/20/2016 05:03 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:<br>
<span class="">> On 20/05/2016 8:37 PM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:<br>
>> I am not getting any failure and after restart the glusterd when I run<br>
>> volume info command it creates the brick directory<br>
>> as well as .glsuterfs (xattrs).<br>
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>> but some time even after restart the glusterd, volume info command<br>
>> showing no volume present.<br>
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>> Could you please tell me why this unpredictable problem is occurring.<br>
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</span>> Because as stated earlier you erase all the information about the<br>
> brick? How is this unpredictable?<br>
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> If you want to delete and recreate a brick you should have used the<br>
> remove-brick/add-brick commands.<br>
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Abhishek Paliwal<br>
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