<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 15:15, Shreyansh Shah <<a href="mailto:shreyansh.shah@alpha-grep.com">shreyansh.shah@alpha-grep.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>Running distributed gluster 5.10 with 6 node and 2 bricks on each node (12 in total)<br><div>Due to some reason the files under <dir>/.glusterfs were deleted.</div><div>Post that we have loads of broken symlinks, but the data on the disks exist</div><div>Due to this, even though the file is present, ls on the folder does not show the file, but I can access the file using the complete file path.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is due to the way the ls is implemented on the brick as well as because dht strips out files with invalid stats in the listing.</div><div>How did the symlinks go missing? Were the contents of the .glusterfs directory deleted?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Nithya</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>Steps to reproduce:</div><div>Stop gluster</div><div>Umount brick</div><div>Run `rm -rf <mnt_dir>/.glusterfs/</div><div>Mount brick</div><div>Start gluster</div><div><br></div><div>The total storage space remains the same, we can access the data using absolute path, but<br clear="all"><div>we are not able to see the files in the folder.</div><div>This is very critical setup for us, we cannot afford any data loss and are heavily dependent.</div><div>Kindly revert back with the solution at the earliest.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Regards,<br>Shreyansh Shah</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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