[Gluster-devel] ls: .: no such file or directory

[Daniel van Ham Colchete]

That explains it!

Thank you very much Amar!

Best regards,
Daniel Colchete

On 7/12/07, Amar S. Tumballi <amar at zresearch.com> wrote:
>
> Daniel,
>  Thats the reason why we say namespace is the 'single point' of failure :|
> As fuse FS works based on inode number, and we send inode number from
> namespace brick to the fuse layer (if unify is used), if namespace is down,
> we return -1, with file not found error. One solution right now is making
> AFR'd namespace.
>
>  In future, we are planing to come with distributed namespace so problems
> of single point of failure, lack of inodes etc can be solved. But with
> 1.3.x releases, it will be like this :|
>
> -amar
>
> On 7/12/07, Daniel van Ham Colchete <daniel.colchete at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 7/11/07, DeeDee Park <deedee6905 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > if all the bricks are not up at the time of the gluster client startup
> > > i get the above error message. if all bricks are up, things are fine.
> > > if the brick goes down after a client is up, things are fine -- it is
> > only
> > > at startup.
> > > i'm still seeing this in the latest patch-299
> > >
> >
> > I was able to reproduce the problem here.
> >
> > I will have the error message if, and only if, the namespace cache brick
> > is
> > offline. I have the error even if the directory is full of files. If I
> > try
> > to open() a file while the namespace cache brick is down I get the
> > "Transport endpoint is not connected" error.
> >
> > Also with patch-299.
> >
> > Client spec file:volume client-1
> >         type protocol/client
> >         option transport-type tcp/client
> >         option remote-host 127.0.0.1
> >         option remote-port 6991
> >         option remote-subvolume brick1
> > end-volume
> >
> > volume client-2
> >         type protocol/client
> >         option transport-type tcp/client
> >         option remote-host 127.0.0.1
> >         option remote-port 6992
> >         option remote-subvolume brick2
> > end-volume
> >
> > volume client-ns
> >         type protocol/client
> >         option transport-type tcp/client
> >         option remote-host 127.0.0.1
> >         option remote-port 6999
> >         option remote-subvolume brick-ns
> > end-volume
> >
> > volume afr
> >         type cluster/afr
> >         subvolumes client-1 client-2
> >         option replicate *:2
> >         option self-heal on
> >         option debug off
> > end-volume
> >
> > volume unify
> >         type cluster/unify
> >         subvolumes afr
> >         option namespace client-ns
> >         option scheduler rr
> >         option rr.limits.min-free-disk 5
> > end-volume
> >
> > volume writebehind
> >         type performance/write-behind
> >         option aggregate-size 131072
> >         subvolumes unify
> > end-volume
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel Colchete
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>
>
>
> --
> Amar Tumballi
> http://amar.80x25.org
> [bulde on #gluster/irc.gnu.org]
>