Description of problem: just paste the email content from Eyal Marantenboim: We have a setup of 4 nodes/bricks in a replicated setup: Number of Bricks: 1 x 4 = 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: vmhost2:/exports/1 Brick2: vmhost3:/exports/1 Brick3: vmhost5:/exports/1 Brick4: vmhost6:/exports/1 I'm trying to remove one of them (vmhost5): gluster> volume remove-brick images_1 replica 3 vmhost5:/exports/1 start Remove Brick start unsuccessful gluster> volume remove-brick images_1 replica 3 vmhost5:/exports/1 status Volume images_1 is not a distribute volume or contains only 1 brick. Not performing rebalance gluster> volume info images_1 Volume Name: images_1 Type: Distributed-Replicate Volume ID: 30c9c2d8-94c9-4b59-b647-0dc593d903d3 Status: Started Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: vmhost2:/exports/1 Brick2: vmhost3:/exports/1 Brick3: vmhost5:/exports/1 Brick4: vmhost6:/exports/1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.gluster volume create four replica 4 cc07:/a1 cc07:/a2 cc07:/a3 cc07:/a4 2.gluster volume start four 3.gluster volume remove-brick four replica 3 cc07:/a3 start note: "start" is required Actual results: Remove Brick start unsuccessful Expected results: Remove Brick start successful Additional info:
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Hi Jules, The remove-brick 'start' variant is applicable only when you have the dht (or distribute) type volume. More on this here:http://www.mail-archive.com/gluster-users@gluster.org/msg12413.html The 'start' is not needed for removing bricks from replicate volume. A (trivial) fix for the same has been recently merged upstream: http://review.gluster.org/#/c/5566/ Thanks, -Ravi
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 961669 ***