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<p dir="ltr">-Atin<br>
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On 20-May-2016 5:34 PM, "ABHISHEK PALIWAL" <<a href="mailto:abhishpaliwal@gmail.com">abhishpaliwal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Actually we have some other files related to system initial configuration for that we<br>
> need to format the volume where these bricks are also created and after this we are <br>
> facing some abnormal behavior in gluster and some failure logs like volume ID mismatch something.<br>
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> That is why I am asking this is the right way to format volume where bricks are created.</p>
<p dir="ltr">No certainly not. If you format your brick, you loose the data and so as all the extended attributes. In this case your volume would bound to behave abnormally.<br>
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> and also is there any link between /var/lib/glusterd and xattr stored in .glusterfs directory at brick path.<br>
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> Regards,<br>
> Abhishek<br>
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> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Atin Mukherjee <<a href="mailto:amukherj@redhat.com">amukherj@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> 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>
>> > 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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>> > 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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>> > Lindsay Mathieson<br>
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> Abhishek Paliwal<br>
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<p dir="ltr">-Atin<br>
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