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gluster replication peer failure

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Just a quick post because I couldn’t find anything on this in a quick Google search.

I was in the process of migrating data in a replicated volume from one machine to another when the destination machine was interrupted (it was actually rebooted by an automated process kicked off by another admin; that’s what poor communication gets you). Then the destination machine wouldn’t boot. This machine mounted several gluster volumes from localhost, but glusterd wouldn’t start, which caused the boot process to hang on mounting.
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