[Gluster-devel] glusterfs process and deleted file handles

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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> I'm seeing something peculiar. lsof is showing glusterfs as having deleted
> file handles open in the backing store. That's fine, those file handles are
> open by the process running on top of it. But the process running on top of
> glusterfs isn't showing the same file handle as deleted. That seems odd. Is
> that normal?
>
> The deleted files in question were prelink files. Restarting the processes
> having those handles open cleared them. I'd still like to know, though, why
> they were showing as deleted in the backing store but this wasn't being
> passed up to the mounted level.

Are you using release 2.x? In 2.x we sometimes keep an open file
descriptor after a file deletion for sometime to prevent inode number
collisions. In 3.x we do not have this problem+workaround as all inode
numbers are stamped with a generation number.

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