[Gluster-devel] Another Data Corruption Report

[Gordan Bobic]

Anand Avati wrote:
> Gordan, and others using a config like Bug 542
> (http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=542)
> 
> This corruption issue can shows up (but not always) when you have
> loaded both io-cache and write-behind below replicate (syntactically
> before replicate in the volfile) and a self-heal of a file bigger than
> 131072 bytes happens. Gordan, we believe this is why your corruption
> observations are strongly correlated to server reconnections.
> 
> Please use write-behind and io-cache on top of replicate (the "normal"
> way, the way glusterfs-volgen would generate), and you will not face
> this problem. I believe the reason for using io-cache and write-behind
> below replicate is for improving self-heal performance - for which we
> suggest using 3.0.x release where we have background self-healing and
> diff based self-healing.
> 
> Please read http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=542#c4
> for details about the internals of the corruption.
> 
> In summary, loading the performance (specifically io-cache)
> translators in the normal location will give you a quick remedy from
> the bug.

I had observed this corruption issue on 2.0 branch WITHOUT any 
performance translators, so there is also something else going wrong.

Gordan