Gluster users - Sep 2012 - Ran into a problem replacing a failed unit

Have a server that died, and dropping in a new server to replace it. 
Same name/IP address (hard requirement, cannot be changed).

Everything is ready, but upon starting gluster, and peer probing the new 
server, I can't do a replace-brick.  It tells me

    dv4-4-10g, is not a friend

Any clues on what to do?  This is 3.2.7 (cannot update to 3.3 for a 
number of reasons).

Worst case, we could tear down gluster and rebuild the gluster file 
system atop it, though this seems rather extreme.  But I'll have to do 
that tonight if nothing else works (time constraints on the part of the 
user).


-- 
Joseph Landman, Ph.D
Founder and CEO
Scalable Informatics Inc.
email: landman at scalableinformatics.com
web  : http://scalableinformatics.com
        http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster
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Hi Joseph,

Have you tried this:
http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Brick_Restoration_-_Replace_Crashed_Server
?
You need to make sure the new server uses the UUID of the one you are replacing.

Frank

On 5/09/2012, at 11:20 AM, Joe Landman wrote:
> Have a server that died, and dropping in a new server to replace it. Same
name/IP address (hard requirement, cannot be changed).
> 
> Everything is ready, but upon starting gluster, and peer probing the new
server, I can't do a replace-brick.  It tells me
> 
>   dv4-4-10g, is not a friend
> 
> Any clues on what to do?  This is 3.2.7 (cannot update to 3.3 for a number
of reasons).
> 
> Worst case, we could tear down gluster and rebuild the gluster file system
atop it, though this seems rather extreme.  But I'll have to do that tonight
if nothing else works (time constraints on the part of the user).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joseph Landman, Ph.D
> Founder and CEO
> Scalable Informatics Inc.
> email: landman at scalableinformatics.com
> web  : http://scalableinformatics.com
>       http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster
> phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121
> fax  : +1 866 888 3112
> cell : +1 734 612 4615
> 
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