[Gluster-devel] Files not available in all clients immediately
Claudio Cuqui
claudio at c3systems.com.br
Tue Mar 18 19:47:52 UTC 2008
Hi Avati,
First at all, thank you very much for your time and help ! I will
upgrade all servers and as soon as I finish I will let you know.
Best Regards !
Cuqui
Anand Avati wrote:
> Claudio,
> Can you try with glusterfs--mainline--2.5--patch-709 ? A similar
> issue is addressed in that revision. We are interested to know if that
> solves your issue as well.
>
> thanks,
>
> avati
>
> 2008/3/19, Claudio Cuqui <claudio at c3systems.com.br
> <mailto:claudio at c3systems.com.br>>:
>
> Hi there !
>
> We are using gluster on an environment with multiple webservers
> and load
> balancer, where we have only one server and multiple clients (6).
> All servers are running Fedora Core 6 X86_64 with kernel
> 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 (with exactly same packages installed in all server).
> The gluster version used is 1.3.8pre2 + 2.7.2glfs8 (both compiled
> locally). The underlying FS is reiserfs mounted with the follow
> options
> rw,noatime,nodiratime,notail. This filesystem has almost 4 thousand
> files from 2k - 10Mb in size. We are using gluster to export this
> filesystem for all other webservers. Below the config file used by
> gluster server:
>
> ### Export volume "brick" with the contents of "/home/export"
> directory.
> volume attachments-nl
> type storage/posix # POSIX FS translator
> option directory
> /C3Systems/data/domains/webmail.pop.com.br/attachments
> end-volume
>
> volume attachments
> type features/posix-locks
> subvolumes attachments-nl
> option mandatory on
> end-volume
>
>
> ### Add network serving capability to above brick.
> volume server
> type protocol/server
> option transport-type tcp/server # For TCP/IP transport
> option client-volume-filename
> /C3Systems/gluster/bin/etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol
> subvolumes attachments-nl attachments
> option auth.ip.attachments-nl.allow * # Allow access to
> "attachments-nl" volume
> option auth.ip.attachments.allow * # Allow access to
> "attachments" volume
> end-volume
>
> The problem happen when the LB sent the post (the uploaded file)
> to one
> webserver and than the next post goes to other webserver that try to
> access the same file. When this happen, the other client got these
> messages:
>
> PHP Warning:
> fopen(/C3Systems/data/domains/c3systems.com.br/attachments/27gBgFQSIiOLDEo7AvxlpsFkqZw9jdnZ):
> failed to open stream: File Not Found.
> PHP Warning:
> unlink(/C3Systems/data/domains/c3systems.com.br/attachments/5Dech7jNxjORZ2cZ9IAbR7kmgmgn2vTE):
> File Not Found.
>
> LB is using RoundRobin to distribute the load between servers.
>
> Below, you can find the gluster configuration file used by all
> clients:
>
> ### file: client-volume.spec.sample
>
> ##############################################
> ### GlusterFS Client Volume Specification ##
> ##############################################
>
> #### CONFIG FILE RULES:
> ### "#" is comment character.
> ### - Config file is case sensitive
> ### - Options within a volume block can be in any order.
> ### - Spaces or tabs are used as delimitter within a line.
> ### - Each option should end within a line.
> ### - Missing or commented fields will assume default values.
> ### - Blank/commented lines are allowed.
> ### - Sub-volumes should already be defined above before referring.
>
> ### Add client feature and attach to remote subvolume
> volume client
> type protocol/client
> option transport-type tcp/client # for TCP/IP transport
> # option ib-verbs-work-request-send-size 1048576
> # option ib-verbs-work-request-send-count 16
> # option ib-verbs-work-request-recv-size 1048576
> # option ib-verbs-work-request-recv-count 16
> # option transport-type ib-sdp/client # for Infiniband transport
> # option transport-type ib-verbs/client # for ib-verbs transport
> option remote-host 1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4> # IP address of
> the remote brick
> # option remote-port 6996 # default server port is 6996
>
> # option transport-timeout 30 # seconds to wait for a reply
> # from server for each request
> option remote-subvolume attachments # name of the remote volume
> end-volume
>
> ### Add readahead feature
> volume readahead
> type performance/read-ahead
> option page-size 1MB # unit in bytes
> option page-count 2 # cache per file = (page-count x
> page-size)
> subvolumes client
> end-volume
>
> ### Add IO-Cache feature
> volume iocache
> type performance/io-cache
> option page-size 256KB
> option page-count 2
> subvolumes readahead
> end-volume
>
> ### Add writeback feature
> #volume writeback
> # type performance/write-behind
> # option aggregate-size 1MB
> # option flush-behind off
> # subvolumes iocache
> #end-volume
>
> When I do the test manually, everything goes fine. What I think is
> happening is that gluster isn´t having enough time to sync all clients
> before clients trying to access the files (those servers are very busy
> ones.....they receive millions of requests per day).
>
> Is this configuration appropriate for this situation ? a bug ? a
> feature
> ;-) ? Is there any option like the sync used in NFS that I can use in
> order guarantee that when the file is write down, all the clients
> already
> have it ?
>
> TIA,
>
> Claudio Cuqui
>
>
>
>
>
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