Bobby, I had to shut down a node in a replica the other week to replace a drive in the hardware RAID. I was surprised with the resilience of my replica!
I documented the procedure here: http://mjanja.co.ke/2013/09/replacing-failed-drive-in-hardware-raid5-on-glusterfs-replica/ Cheers, Alan On 10/02/2013 12:54 PM, Bobby Jacob wrote: > Hi Hoggins, > > Thanks. I have set gluster services to start during startup. I believe the > self-heal would play the most important role of taking care of the changes in > the dead-peer once it comes back up. Any comments or suggestions for the same > ? > > Thanks & Regards, > Bobby Jacob > > -----Original Message----- > From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org > [mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Hoggins! > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 12:46 PM > To: gluster-users@gluster.org > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Shutting down a GlusterFS server. > > Hello Bobby, > > I experienced problems shutting down Gluster servers, because the startup > scripts (SystemD) did not have dependencies for system shutdown that would > stop the Gluster services before anything else. My problems were also related > to the fact that my nodes are connected to each other through IPSec links, > and during shutdown, the links were cut before the Gluster service was > properly shut down. The other node was waiting for the well-known 42 seconds > before considering the peer dead, hence not responding to any file request, > and hanging all client systems. Not cool. > > So the best practice is simply to end the Gluster services before shutting > down the server. Everything runs as smooth as it should be, and the clients > don't notice any downtime. > > Hope this helps. > > Hoggins! > > > Le 02/10/2013 11:36, Bobby Jacob a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have a 2-node replica volume running with GlusterFS 3.3.2 on Centos >> 6.4. I want to shut down one of the gluster servers for maintenance. >> Any best practice that is to be followed while turning off a server in >> terms of services etc. Or can I just shut down the server. ? >> > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." -Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++
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