[Gluster-devel] ESTALE

[Paul Arch]

Hi,

 

 I have a very simple two server setup with Unify.  The servers are running
FreeBSD ( 1.3.8 ) and the client is SuSE 10.3 ( 1.3.8 )

 

 The servers ( FreeBSD ) are running ZFS and UFS, the name space exists on
the client which is XFS.

 

 In most cases, things are running sweet.

 

 But, I have been getting this which is causing my app. to bomb out  ( eg ):

    2008-05-12 01:50:49 E [unify.c:325:unify_lookup] bricks: returning
ESTALE for /jre/lib/locale/sv(46912587703840) [translator generation (6)
inode generation (3)]

    2008-05-12 01:50:49 E [fuse-bridge.c:459:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse:
46164509: (34) /jre/lib/locale/sv => -1 (116)

 

 If I actually 'CWD' to that directory from the client and 'ls -al', I can
see the files there but get something like  ( eg ):

    2008-05-12 06:08:04 E [fuse-bridge.c:2176:fuse_xattr_cbk]
glusterfs-fuse: 159472: (20) /java/lib/fontconfig.bfc => -1 (45)

The actual ls command returns something like : Level 2 not Syncronized

 

1.       On the namespace server there is a reference to the file there

2.       On Server 1 the file actually exists

3.       On Server 2 the file isn't there

 

 It could be the case that these files existed in the backend ( server side
) before the unify was done, I believe in the past if I come across files
like this, if I delete them from the client and let them be re-created it
seems ok.

 

Is there anything I can do , or am I better off just blowing away these
directories and allow the creation of the files again?

 

cheers

 

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Paul Arch