[Gluster-devel] unify: other clients cannot read files

Anand Avati avati at zresearch.com
Fri Feb 8 08:49:26 UTC 2008


David,
 Can you upgrade to patch-650 and start with an empty backend? Suspecting
that you were effected by the bug ~640 which might have created 0 byte files
in the backend (which can cause such a behaviour). We are curious to know if
patch-650 (with an empty backend) works for you..
thanks,
avati

2008/2/8, David Mayr - Hetzner Online AG <david.mayr at hetzner.de>:
>
> Hi Avati,
>
> > Is the client spec file same on both clients?
>
> Yes, the client specs are the same on both clients.
>
>
> > can you show the client log of client-2?
>
> with loglevel DEBUG I see the following on client-2 while reading (with
> dd) a
> file written by client-1 (timestamps removed):
>
> D [fuse-bridge.c:492:fuse_lookup] glusterfs-fuse: 2: LOOKUP /testfile-2
> D [fuse-bridge.c:354:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 2: /testfile-2 =>
> 1972
> D [inode.c:559:__create_inode] fuse/inode: create inode(1972)
> D [inode.c:351:__active_inode] fuse/inode: activating inode(1972),
> lru=0/1024
> D [inode.c:381:__passive_inode] fuse/inode: passivating inode(1972),
> lru=1/1024
> D [inode.c:308:__destroy_inode] fuse/inode: destroy inode(0) [@0x80a5720]
> D [inode.c:351:__active_inode] fuse/inode: activating inode(1972),
> lru=0/1024
> D [fuse-bridge.c:1470:fuse_open] glusterfs-fuse: 3: OPEN /testfile-2
> E [unify.c:875:unify_open] unify: /testfile-2: entry_count is 3
> E [fuse-bridge.c:670:fuse_fd_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 3: /testfile-2 => -1 (5)
> D [inode.c:381:__passive_inode] fuse/inode: passivating inode(1972),
> lru=1/1024
>
>
> when I only do an ls /glusterfs/filename I see the following on client-2:
>
> D [inode.c:351:__active_inode] fuse/inode: activating inode(1972),
> lru=0/1024
> D [fuse-bridge.c:500:fuse_lookup] glusterfs-fuse: 4: LOOKUP
> /testfile-2(1972)
> E [fuse-bridge.c:431:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 4: /testfile-2 => -1
> (116)
> D [fuse-bridge.c:437:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: unlinking stale
> dentry
> for `/testfile-2'
> D [fuse-bridge.c:354:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 4: /testfile-2 =>
> 1972
> D [inode.c:308:__destroy_inode] fuse/inode: destroy inode(0) [@0xb6b05248]
> D [inode.c:381:__passive_inode] fuse/inode: passivating inode(1972),
> lru=1/1024
>
>
> > also which version of glusterfs/fuse are you using?
>
> - debian etch
> - kernel 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem
> - glusterfs tla 643  (debian packages from http://projects.nlogy.cz/debian
> )
> - fuse-2.7.2glfs8 from
>
> http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/fuse/fuse-2.7.2glfs8.tar.gz
>
>
> David
>
>
> > 2008/1/29, David Mayr - Hetzner Online AG <david.mayr at hetzner.de>:
> > > Hi Avati,
> > >
> > > > > Hi GlusterFS-Team,
> > > > >
> > > > > first thank you for this great piece of software!
> > > > >
> > > > > I try glusterfs for testing at the moment on 9 servers and two
> > > > > clients with
> > > > > unify - for config see
> > > > > http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m7a74bd29(client) and
> > > > > http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m206785bc (server).
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm using TLA 643 of the packages from
> > > > > http://projects.nlogy.cz/debian (camel1cz builds them nightly),
> but
> > > > > saw the following problem already last week with earlier patch
> > > > > versions.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I write files with client-1, I can stat and read these files
> > > > > from client-1 without problems. But I get wrong results doing an
> "ls
> > > > > -l"
> > >
> > > (zero
> > >
> > > > > bytes) on client-2 and cannot read the file on client-2.
> > > > >
> > > > > See the following example:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ===> on client-1:
> > > > >
> > > > > root at client-1 ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/glusterfs/testfile bs=1M
> > >
> > > count=100
> > >
> > > > > 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 1.9773 seconds, 53.0 MB/s
> > > > >
> > > > > root at client-1 ~ # ls -lah /glusterfs/testfile
> > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100M 2008-01-28 12:48 /glusterfs/testfile
> > > > >
> > > > > root at client-1 ~ # dd if=/glusterfs/testfile of=/dev/null
> > > > > 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.55219 seconds, 41.1 MB/s
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ===> on client-2:
> > > > >
> > > > > root at client-2 ~ # ls -lah /glusterfs/testfile
> > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-28 12:47 /glusterfs/testfile
> > > > > (=> zero byte size)
> > > > >
> > > > > root at client-2 ~ # dd if=/glusterfs/testfile of=/dev/null
> > > > > dd: opening `/glusterfs/testfile': Input/output error
> > > > >
> > > > > David
> > > >
> > > > In your client spec I do not see 'ns9' being declared as a
> > >
> > > protocol/client.
> > >
> > > > Please declare the global namespace as it is necssary for shared
> > > > access. avati
> > >
> > > Oops, I'm sorry - forgot that while cleaning up (removing comments and
> > > unnecessary) my config files.
> > > In my original files the ns9-entry exists.
> > >
> > > I re-posted my config files here:
> > > server:   http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m96b2583
> > > client:    http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m6c8472aa
> > >
> > > Any ideas why clients cannot read files of other clients?
> > >
> > > --
> > > David
>
>
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