Bug 763614 (GLUSTER-1882)

Summary: starting rebalance while previous rebalance is still running
Product: [Community] GlusterFS Reporter: Lakshmipathi G <lakshmipathi>
Component: distributeAssignee: shishir gowda <sgowda>
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Version: 3.1-alphaCC: amarts, divya, gluster-bugs, nsathyan, vijay
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Description Lakshmipathi G 2010-10-09 13:02:27 UTC 
Added few bricks and started rebalance. status gave migrated files.
While trying to start again from same brick it failed as unsuccessful. But if add-brick command executed during it says appropriate message "Volume name qa43dht rebalance is in progress. Please retry after completion"

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10.192.141.187#gluster volume rebalance qa43dht status
rebalance step 2: data migration in progress: rebalanced 2353 files of size 0 (total files scanned 7373)

10.192.141.187#gluster volume rebalance qa43dht start
starting rebalance on volume qa43dht has been unsuccessful
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#gluster volume rebalance qa43dht status
rebalance step 1: layout fix in progress
10.192.141.187#gluster volume add-brick qa43dht 10.192.134.144:/mnt/QA43
Add Brick unsuccessful
Volume name qa43dht rebalance is in progress. Please retry after completion
10.192.141.187#gluster volume rebalance qa43dht status
rebalance step 2: data migration in progress
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Comment 1 Anand Avati 2010-10-25 03:17:52 UTC 
PATCH: http://patches.gluster.com/patch/5524 in master (Propogate rebalance already started error to cli)
Comment 2 Lakshmipathi G 2010-11-11 03:34:57 UTC 
tested with 3.1.1qa5  -fixed.

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# gluster volume rebalance qa5  start
starting rebalance on volume qa5 has been successful

[root@space laks]# gluster volume rebalance qa5  start
starting rebalance on volume qa5 has been unsuccessful
Rebalance already started on volume qa5
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Comment 3 Amar Tumballi 2011-02-15 06:07:46 UTC 
Can add this to FAQ. Previous reply has the proper output.