[Gluster-devel] Another Data Corruption Report

[Gordan Bobic]

I've just observed another case of corruption similar to what I reported 
a while back with .viminfo files getting corrupted (in that case, by 
somehow being clobbered by a shared library fragment from what I could 
tell).

This time, however, it was much more sinister, although probably the 
same failure mode. I have just seen a file in a CVS repository resiting 
on GlusterFS be replaced - by another file in the same directory in the 
same CVS repository! One of my header files somehow got replaced by the 
Makefile in the same directory. Reviewing "cvs log" indicates that the 
entire file on the CVS side was clobbered by the Makefile - there is no 
indication (e.g. from cvs log) that it was accidentally copied over and 
committed in.

I'm sure I don't have to stress just how mind bogglingly dangerous (as 
in data corruption/loss dangerous) this is.

Observed with 2.0.9, the volume is AFR.

Not sure if it is in any way relevant to this particular bug report, but 
whenever I do cvs update on the glfs-backed repository, I get this sort 
of thing in the glfs log:

[2010-01-15 18:05:11] E [posix.c:3156:do_xattrop] home-store: getxattr 
failed on /cvs/Project/C/#cvs.lock while doing xattrop: No such file or 
directory

Gordan