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).
> 
> 
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