[Gluster-devel] AFR problem with 2.0rc4

[Gordan Bobic]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:25:21 +0530, Vikas Gorur <vikas at zresearch.com>
wrote:
> 2009/3/19 Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>:
>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:14:18 +0530, Vikas Gorur <vikas at zresearch.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 2009/3/19 Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net>:
>>>> How does this affect adding new servers into an existing cluster?
>>>
>>> Adding a new server will work --- as and when files are accessed, new
>>> extended attributes will be written.
>>
>> And presumably, permanently removing servers should also work the same
>> way?
>> I'm only asking because I had a whole array of weird spurious problems
>> before when I removed a server and added a new server at the same time.
> 
> Removing a server might not work so seamlessly, since the new client
> will expect smaller size extended attributes whereas the older files
> will have bigger ones. IIRC, this was the source of the errors you
> faced ("Numerical result out of range"). Fixes for this are on the
> way.

Ah, OK, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up.

Now if just the lockup on udev creation (root on glusterfs) in rc4 and the
big memory leak I reported get sorted out, I'll have a working system. ;)