If you refer to /<path_to_brick>/.glusterfs/<gfid_first_2_characters>/<gfid_second_2_characters>/gfid - it' s a hard link to the file on the brick.<div>Directories in the .glusterfs are just symbolic links.</div><div><br></div><div>Can you clarify what you are planing to delete ?</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Strahil Nikolov </div><div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 14:35, Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD</div><div><chasapakis@forumZFD.de> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv5583267061">
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<p>Hi Thomas,</p>
<p>Thanks again for your replies and patience :)</p>
<p>We have also offline backups of the files.<br>
</p>
<p>So, just to verify I understood this correctly, deletion of a
.glusterfs-gfid file doesn't inherently include the risk of the
loss of the complete brick, right?</p>
<p>I saw you already applied this for your purposes so it worked for
you... But just as a confirmation. Of course it is fully
understood that the operational risk is on our side.<br>
</p>
<p>It is just an "information-wise" question :)<br>
</p>
<p>Best regards<br>
Ilias<br>
</p>
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<p class="yiv5583267061MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello Ilias,<br>
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Please note that you can and should backup all of the
file(s) involved in the split-brain by accessing them over
the brick root instead of the gluster mount. That is also
the reason why you’re not in danger of a failure cascade
wiping out our data.</span></p>
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<p class="yiv5583267061MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Be careful when
replacing bricks, though. You want that heal to go in the
right direction </span><span style="font-family:UI sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">😉</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="yiv5583267061MsoNormal">Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</p>
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<p class="yiv5583267061MsoNormal"><b>Von:</b> Gluster-users
<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org" class="yiv5583267061moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><gluster-users-bounces@gluster.org></a> <b>Im Auftrag
von </b>Ilias Chasapakis forumZFD<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 17. August 2022 11:18<br>
<b>An:</b> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" class="yiv5583267061moz-txt-link-abbreviated">gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] Directory in split
brain does not heal - Gfs 9.2</p>
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<p>Thanks for the suggestions. My question is if the risk is
actually related to only losing the file/dir or actually
creating inconsistencies that span through the bricks and
"break everything".<br>
Of course we have to take action anyway for this not to spread
(as we already now have a second entry that developed an
"unhealable" directory split-brain) so it is just a question
of evaluation before acting.</p>
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<p class="yiv5583267061MsoNormal">Am 12.08.22 um 18:12 schrieb Thomas
Bätzler:</p>
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<p class="yiv5583267061MsoNormal">Am 12.08.2022 um 17:12 schrieb Ilias
Chasapakis forumZFD:</p>
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<p>Dear fellow gluster users,</p>
<p>we are facing a problem with our replica 3 setup.
Glusterfs version is 9.2.</p>
<p>We have a problem with a directory that is in split-brain
and we cannot manage to heal with:</p>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;">
<p>gluster volume heal gfsVol split-brain latest-mtime
/folder</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The command throws the following error: "failed:Transport
endpoint is not connected." </p>
<p>So the split brain directory entry remains and and so the
whole healing process is not completing and other entries
get stuck.</p>
<p>I saw there is a python script available <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/joejulian/glusterfs-splitbrain" class="yiv5583267061moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/joejulian/glusterfs-splitbrain</a>
Would that be a good solution to try? To be honest we are
a bit concerned with deleting the gfid and the files from
the brick manually as it seems it can create
inconsistencies and break things... I can of course give
you more information about our setup and situation, but if
you already have some tip, that would be fantastic.</p>
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<p>You could at least verify what's going on: Go to your brick
roots and list /folder from each. You have 3n bricks with n
replica sets. Find the replica set where you can spot a
difference. It's most likely a file or directory that's
missing or different. If it's a file, do a ls -ain on the
file on each brick in the replica set. It'll report an inode
number. Do a find .glusterfs -inum from the brick root.
You'll likely see that you have different gfid-files.</p>
<p>To fix the problem, you have to help gluster along by
cleaning up the mess. This is completely "do it at your own
risk, it worked for me, ymmv": cp (not mv!) a copy of the
file you want to keep. On each brick in the replica-set,
delete the gfid-file and the datafile. Try a heal on the
volume and verify that you can access the path in question
using the glusterfs mount. Copy back your salvaged file
using the glusterfs mount.</p>
<p>We had this happening quite often on a heavily loaded
glusterfs shared filesystem that held a mail-spool. There
would be parallel accesses trying to mv files and sometimes
we'd end up with mismatched data on the bricks of the
replica set. I've reported this on github, but apparently it
wasn't seen as a serious problem. We've moved on to ceph FS
now. That sure has bugs, too, but hopefully not as
aggravating.</p>
<pre>MfG,</pre>
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