just a quick status for anyone who cares. once the find seemed to work properly for a few directories I remounted both servers with the proper AFR confi and they seem to be working just fine. auto-healing serverB as appropriate and sever1 getting updated when a file on serverb is updated. :) At 03:22 AM 10/10/2008, Keith Freedman wrote:>no one answered me so I'll just report my findings: > >Server1 and ServerB full of data.. Gluster 1.4pre5. FedoraCore9 >Disk on serverb crashes, loose everything. re-install >copied over my AFR config from server1 change IP addresses as appropriate. > >using the find /home/XXXX -type f -print0 | xargs -0 head -c1 > /dev/null >to auto-heal them and it seems to be going just fine. > >once that's finished, I'll re-add serverB to server1's AFR config and >I presume it'll be fine. > >anyway, it was a minor irritation and overall the auto-healing once >going has been a lifesaver. > >Keith > >At 06:21 AM 10/9/2008, Keith Freedman wrote: > >I have 2 servers that AFR eachother. > > > >one of them suffered a drive failure and is being rebuilt. > > > >the question is. What will happen if I just mount the empty drive > >back as the AFR node. > > > >will it just start grabbing the data from the other server (which is > >exactly what I want), OR > >will it start deleting the data from the other server (which is > terribly bad). > > > >Another thought was to, on the current working server with good data, > >disable the remote afr node from it's config (so it's only using AFR > >on itself), and then leave the other machines config as is, and turn it on. > >This way I can be sure that the node with the data wont go nuts and > >start deleting, but that updates to it will get replicated to the > >other machine. > > > >this particular set is running 1.4pre5 if that changes the answer. > > > >Thanks, > >Keith > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Gluster-users mailing list > >Gluster-users at gluster.org > >http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users