<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am not an expert, but I think bricks could not be removed on dispersed volume. Maybe “volume replace-brick” could be more accurate in this situation ?<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Dec 2016, at 12:13, Zhang Hang <<a href="mailto:hangzzzzz@qq.com" class="">hangzzzzz@qq.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi,<br class="">I am new to glusterFS and now I am trying it with the proxmox VE under lab situation. I have 5 nodes on proxmox VE and made a dispersed volume of 1 x (4 + 1) = 5. however, the node02 has failed to work now. so i plan to reinstall proxmox VE on node02 so i need to remove the brick on node02 but i failed with this message:<br class="">gluster> volume remove-brick DispersedVol node02:/gluster/node02/brick01 force<br class="">Removing brick(s) can result in data loss. Do you want to Continue? (y/n) y<br class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">volume remove-brick commit force: failed: Remove brick incorrect brick count of 1 for disperse 5<br class=""><br class=""></span>is that possible to remove a brick from the dispersed volume in this kind of circumstance?<br class=""><br class="">here is some information of my volume: <br class="">root@node04:~# gluster <br class="">gluster> peer status<br class="">Number of Peers: 4<br class=""><br class="">Hostname: node02<br class="">State: Peer in Cluster (Disconnected)<br class=""><br class="">Hostname: node05<br class="">State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)<br class=""><br class="">Hostname: node03<br class="">State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)<br class=""><br class="">Hostname: node01<br class="">State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)<br class=""><br class="">gluster> volume info<br class=""> <br class="">Volume Name: DispersedVol<br class="">Type: Disperse<br class="">Status: Started<br class="">Snapshot Count: 0<br class="">Number of Bricks: 1 x (4 + 1) = 5<br class="">Transport-type: tcp<br class="">Bricks:<br class="">Brick1: node01:/gluster/node01/brick01<br class="">Brick2: node02:/gluster/node02/brick01<br class="">Brick3: node03:/gluster/node03/brick01<br class="">Brick4: node04:/gluster/node04/brick01<br class="">Brick5: node05:/gluster/node05/brick01<br class="">Options Reconfigured:<br class="">nfs.disable: on<br class="">performance.readdir-ahead: on<br class="">transport.address-family: inet<br class=""><br class="">Anybody can help? Thanks a lot!<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Gluster-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" class="">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br class="">http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>