[Gluster-devel] another mailstore glusterfs issue

Jeff Humes jeff at bofus.org
Thu Nov 22 05:17:50 UTC 2007


Anand,

I am looking at the arch repository (I guess) at:
http://arch.sv.gnu.org/archives/gluster/glusterfs/glusterfs--mainline/

I downloaded the base, but do I need to download ALL of the patches and 
apply them?
I am not really sure how to build glusterfs from this.  Is there a 
document to follow, or a process?

Thanks!

-Jeff


Anand Avati wrote:
> Jeff,
>  the arch repository has been having a fix for a bug which causes such 
> behavior since a while. Can you please check if the source repository 
> version fixes your issue? The fix will be included in the next release.
>
> avati
>
> 2007/11/19, Jeff Humes <jeff at bofus.org <mailto:jeff at bofus.org>>:
>
>     Anand,
>
>     # CLIENT:
>     # glusterfs --version
>     glusterfs 1.3.7 built on Nov  3 2007
>     Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Z RESEARCH Inc. <http://www.zresearch.com>
>
>     # SERVER:
>     # glusterfsd --version
>     glusterfs 1.3.7 built on Nov  3 2007
>     Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Z RESEARCH Inc. <http://www.zresearch.com>
>
>     -Jeff
>
>
>     Anand Avati wrote:
>     > Jeff,
>     >  what is the version of glusterfs you are using?
>     >
>     > avati
>     >
>     > 2007/11/19, Jeff Humes <jeff at bofus.org <mailto:jeff at bofus.org>
>     <mailto: jeff at bofus.org <mailto:jeff at bofus.org>>>:
>     >
>     >     I upgraded my dovecot imap server so that I could use the
>     >     "disable_mmap=yes" option because I was seeing errors trying to
>     >     write to
>     >     .index and some other mmap'ed files in a glusterfs mounted
>     mailstore.
>     >     Those errors are not showing up anymore, but I am now seeing
>     some
>     >     other
>     >     (harder to troubleshoot) errors:
>     >
>     >     the mail client will get an email and click on it, and it
>     will show no
>     >     content in the message.  I look at the imap server log and
>     see the
>     >     following error:
>     >     dovecot: Nov 18 20:16:56 Error: IMAP(jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto: jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>): Maildir: Symlink
>     >     destination doesn't exist:
>     >     /opt/GFS/postfix/vmail/jana at bofus
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus <mailto:jana at bofus>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus
>     <mailto:jana at bofus>>>.org/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >
>     >     So I do an "ls -l" on that file:
>     >     # ls -l /opt/GFS/postfix/vmail/jana@ bofus.org
>     <http://bofus.org> <http://bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto: jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >     ls: /opt/GFS/postfix/vmail/jana@ bofus.org
>     <http://bofus.org> <http://bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S:
>     No
>     >     such file or directory
>     >     -rw-------  1 vmail vmail 9247 Nov 18 19:30
>     >     /opt/GFS/postfix/vmail/jana@ bofus.org <http://bofus.org>
>     <http://bofus.org <http://bofus.org>>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >
>     >     first it says "No such file or directory", then it lists it
>     out.
>     >     If I try to touch the file, it fails with no such file.  If
>     I try to
>     >     remove the file it fails in the same manner.
>     >
>     >     Here is my client mountpoint:
>     >     glusterfs on /opt/GFS/postfix type fuse
>     >    
>     (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=1048576)
>     >
>     >
>     >     So now I login to the glusterfs server:
>     >     I can do an successful "ls -l" on that same file above:
>     >     # ls -l /glusterfs/knworksmail/vmail/jana at bofus.org
>     <http://bofus.org> <http://bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto: jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >     -rw-------  1 15002 15002 9247 Nov 18 19:30
>     >     /glusterfs/knworksmail/vmail/jana@ bofus.org
>     <http://bofus.org> <http://bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto: jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >
>     >     Here on the server I can move the file around:
>     >     mv /glusterfs/knworksmail/vmail/jana@ bofus.org
>     <http://bofus.org> <http://bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto:jana at bofus.org
>     <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >     /var/tmp
>     >     - works -
>     >
>     >     Now if I move the file back into place, the mail client can then
>     >     see it
>     >     like it should have been able to in the first place:
>     >     mv /var/tmp/1195435820.V13Iaad099.asknmapr01:2,S
>     >     /glusterfs/knworksmail/vmail/jana at bofus.org
>     <http://bofus.org> <http://bofus.org>
>     >     <mailto: jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org> <mailto:
>     jana at bofus.org <mailto:jana at bofus.org>>>/cur/
>     >     - client now sees it and the content -
>     >
>     >     This happens seemingly randomly to mail.  this did not happen
>     >     before the
>     >     upgrade, and does not occur if I move the mailstore to local
>     ext3
>     >     disk.
>     >
>     >     Any Ideas?  do I need to provide more information?
>     >
>     >     Thanks!
>     >
>     >     -Jeff Humes
>     >
>     >
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>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into
>     > account Hofstadter's Law.
>     >
>     > -- Hofstadter's Law
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into 
> account Hofstadter's Law.
>
> -- Hofstadter's Law 






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