[Gluster-devel] glusterfs_1.4.0qa19: small issues

[Brent A Nelson]

I've just started testing the new branch.  So far, it's working and 
stable, but I'm testing it with rsync, local-to-GlusterFS and 
GlusterFS-to-GlusterFS, which is failing to set the destination mtimes to 
match the origin.

Also, I just tried a cp -a, which gives lots of complaints:
cp -a /usr cp0
cp: setting permissions for `cp0/share/linux-sound-base': No such file or 
directory
cp: setting permissions for `cp0/share/bug/libmagic1': No such file or 
directory
cp: setting permissions for `cp0/share/bug/apt': No such file or 
directory
cp: setting permissions for `cp0/share/bug/grub': No such file or 
directory

But, when I check, those directories do exist.

My test setup is a 4-node, 4-exports-per-node unified AFR, with AFRed 
namespace.  Each export is its own glusterfsd process.  No performance 
translators on the client, with io-threads (8) and posix-locks on the 
servers.  The client is using read-subvolume, where appropriate.  I'm just 
using standard FUSE 2.7.2 at the moment.

Thanks,

Brent

PS I really appreciate the focus on metadata performance in the latest 
branch, and would be interested in any tips or patches to further boost 
the metadata performance (high-speed file creation and lookups).  I do 
wonder if BDB would be effective for namespace, as someone asked in a 
previous post.