[Gluster-devel] lost locks

[Anand Avati]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu at netbsd.org> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have been playing with replicate translator on glusterfs 3.1.4,
> with high availlability in mind. It works fine, if I kill one server,
> the client uses the other one, and vice versa. auto healing works
> fine, this is amazing.
>
> However things turn bad when a server die while a client holds a lock
> on a file.  Following such an event, the file cannot be written anymore
> even after all servers came back online. I have to delete it to clear
> the situation.
>
> Is it a feature missing in the replication protocol? Or is it just
> missing in the implementation? Or is it a bug?
>


Can you describe more about the test case with the exact sequence of steps?
There is code to self-heal locks after reconnection. If you can give us a
test case it will be wonderful.

Thanks,
Avati
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