Hi Alan,

Thanks a lot. :) Going through your document, I find that you were not required 
to any follow any particular procedure for shutting down GlusterFS. Just a 
normal server reboot and as the glusterd service was started after reboot and 
it worked.

Do correct me if I'm wrong. !!

Thanks & Regards,
Bobby Jacob
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From: gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org 
[mailto:gluster-users-boun...@gluster.org] On Behalf Of Alan Orth
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 3:54 PM
To: gluster-users@gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Shutting down a GlusterFS server.

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



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Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 12:46 PM

To: gluster-users@gluster.org<mailto: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. ?





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