Description of problem: A user created a volume using /var/lib/glusterd/vols/brick assuming that the structure was named that way to be the brick. The working-directory configured in the should be disallowed from having bricks under it.
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Gaurav - do you mind sending a patch for this? The fix should be straight forward. In the brick path validation code path we'd need to do an strstr of the brick path and glusterd workdir.
REVIEW: https://review.gluster.org/21066 (glusterd: avoid using /var/lib/glusterd as a brick) posted (#1) for review on master by Sanju Rakonde
COMMIT: https://review.gluster.org/21066 committed in master by "Sanju Rakonde" <srakonde> with a commit message- glusterd: avoid using glusterd's working directory as a brick Adding checks for avoiding glusterd's working directory used as a brick for volume creation. fixes: bz#853601 Change-Id: I4b16a05f752e92216aa628f542a4fdbf59b3c669 Signed-off-by: Sanju Rakonde <srakonde>
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