Description of problem: When a volume creation fails, extended attributes are left behind on any bricks that were not part of that failure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.6.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pick a brick and do something to ensure it fails, make the filesystem read only, use selinux to block access, whatever. Call this server3:/brick1 2. Create a volume: gluster volume create fubar server{1,2,3}:/brick1 3. When volume creation fails on server[12], getfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.volume-id -e hex /brick1 Actual results: volume-id exists preventing additional attempts at creating a volume with those server/brick combinations. Expected results: A failed volume creation should return the potential brick to pre-attempt state. Additional info: This is a common problem seen in #gluster. Users do not understand, based on the error message, what the cause of the problem is nor how to fix it.
This is not a security bug, not going to fix this in 3.6.x because of http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-July/027682.html
If the issue persists in the latest releases, please feel free to clone them