[Gluster-devel] error while reading from an open file

Raghavendra G raghavendra at gluster.com
Tue Sep 8 05:53:14 UTC 2009


Hi Brian,

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brian Hirt <bhirt at mobygames.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Raghavendra G wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Brian Hirt <bhirt at mobygames.com> wrote:
>>
>> The situation you're facing is because of self-heal not being done on open
>> fds which in turn might lead to split brain scenarios. Self-heal not being
>> done on open fds is a known issue and will be fixed. As far as the split
>> brain scenarios, glusterfs can just identify that is a split-brain and
>> manual intervention is needed to copy the correct file. And the
>> documentation on split brain explains the reasons for it.
>> http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_AFR_Translator
>>
>>
>>
> Raghavendra,
>
> Do you know what release are you planning on fixing the open file self heal
> bug?  It appears to be the root cause of a lot of other critical issues and
> general misunderstands about what gluster is capable of doing.  I don't see
> anything mentioned about this in the
> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS_Roadmap
>

It will be out in 2.1 release, which can happen in November, 2009.


>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
>> --
>> Raghavendra G
>>
>>
>


-- 
Raghavendra G
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