[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt over gluster: Replacing a dead host

Hello, $ gluster volume info GV2Data Volume Name: GV2Data Type: Replicate Volume ID: c1946fc2-ed94-4b9f-9da3-f0f1ee90f303 Status: Stopped Snapshot Count: 0 Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: office-wx-hv1-lab-gfs:/mnt/LogGFSData/brick <------ This is the dead host. Brick2: office-wx-hv2-lab-gfs:/mnt/LogGFSData/brick Brick3: office-wx-hv3-lab-gfs:/mnt/LogGFSData/brick (arbiter) I tried to remove the dead brick, and failed. *$ gluster volume remove-brick GV2Data replica 1 office-wx-hv1-lab-gfs:/mnt/**LogGFSData/brick force* ...volume remove-brick start: failed: need 2(xN) bricks for reducing replica count of the volume from 3 to 1 What was I doing wrong? (Assuming my original configuration, 2 + 1, was acceptable). - Gilboa On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 7:14 PM Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: