[Gluster-users] Importing bricks/datastore into new gluster

Pranith Kumar Karampuri
2015-10-14T05:17:29Z

On 10/12/2015 05:09 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> Contemplating upgrading my proxmox clusterby a major revision, which
> unfortunately basically involves destroying and recreating each node.
> A major PITA.
>
> The gluster bricks are all sitting on top of ZFS, so its easy enough
> to preserve their data across the reinstall, but I will have to
> reinstall gluster and recreate the setup (peers, datastore etc).
I didn't understand the reason for recreating the setup. Is upgrading
rpms/debs not enough?

Pranith
>
> Can I safely recreate the bricks on top of the existing datastructure
> and avoid restoring/resyncing all the data (2.5TB). I'm worried about
> inadvertently creating a splitbrain problem.
>
> If its risky I can just create a empty gluster datastore, then move
> the data onto one node and allow it to sync to the others over the
> weekend, only 1GB Ethernet unfortunately :(
>
> --
> Lindsay
>
>
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