[Gluster-devel] self heal makes client loop indefinately

Vincent Régnard vregnard at tbs-internet.com
Thu Oct 18 09:37:49 UTC 2007


Vincent Régnard a écrit :
> Vincent Régnard a écrit :
>> NB: the directory where mismatch are found has a large number of files 
>> (a few tens of thouthands). When I ls in that directory (on glusterfs 
>> mount point); it takes ages to return the answer. There are also many 
>> symlinks in that directory (about 20%).
>> I saw a stat-prefetch translator that I dont have presently, can this 
>> help in that situation ? Is it a post 1.3.5 functionality ? (1.3.6?)
>>
> 
> Upgrading to 1.3.6 avoid loadaverage increase. But behaviour is the 
> same, client loops indefinitely the same way, same log messages. And 
> doing a ls on /mnt/glusterfs mount point hangs also indefinitely, a kill 
> -9 on ls does nothing, pocess is uninterruptible.
> 

Probleme seams to be I was mounting the GFS volume on a mount point on a
file system not having extended attributes. Mounting the volume on a
mouint point where extended_attrs is available seams to work better.
Should'nt we encounter at least a warning when doing such a bad operation ?

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