[Gluster-devel] upstream: Symbolic link not getting healed

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com>
> To: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu at redhat.com>, "Venkatesh Somyajulu" <vsomyaju at redhat.com>
> Cc: gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:59:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] upstream: Symbolic link not getting healed
> 
> On 12/19/2013 07:58 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> > hi,
> >      I used the following test to figure out the bad commit.
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > . $(dirname $0)/../include.rc
> > . $(dirname $0)/../volume.rc
> >
> > function trigger_mount_self_heal {
> >          find $M0 | xargs stat
> > }
> >
> > cleanup;
> >
> > TEST glusterd
> > TEST pidof glusterd
> > TEST $CLI volume create $V0 replica 2 $H0:$B0/${V0}{0,1}
> > TEST $CLI volume set $V0 cluster.background-self-heal-count 0
> > TEST $CLI volume start $V0
> > TEST glusterfs --volfile-id=/$V0 --volfile-server=$H0 $M0 --use-readdirp=no
> > --attribute-timeout=0 --entry-timeout=0
> > TEST touch $M0/a
> > TEST kill_brick $V0 $H0 $B0/${V0}0
> > TEST ln -s $M0/a $M0/s
> > TEST ! stat $B0/${V0}0/s
> > TEST stat $B0/${V0}1/s
> > TEST $CLI volume start $V0 force
> > EXPECT_WITHIN 20 "Y" glustershd_up_status
> > EXPECT_WITHIN 20 "1" afr_child_up_status_in_shd $V0 0
> > TEST $CLI volume heal $V0 full
> > TEST trigger_mount_self_heal
> > TEST stat $B0/${V0}0/s
> > TEST stat $B0/${V0}1/s
> > cleanup
> >
> > According to git bisect run, the commit which introduced this problem is:
> >
> > 837422858c2e4ab447879a4141361fd382645406
> > commit 837422858c2e4ab447879a4141361fd382645406
> > Author: Anand Avati <avati at redhat.com>
> > Date:   Thu Nov 21 06:48:17 2013 -0800
> >
> >      core: fix errno for non-existent GFID
> >
> >      When clients refer to a GFID which does not exist, the errno to
> >      be returned in ESTALE (and not ENOENT). Even though ENOENT might
> >      look "proper" most of the time, as the application eventually expects
> >      ENOENT even if a parent directory does not exist, not returning
> >      ESTALE results in resolvers (FUSE and GFAPI) to not retry resolution
> >      in uncached mode. This can result in spurious ENOENTs during
> >      concurrent path modification operations.
> >
> >      Change-Id: I7a06ea6d6a191739f2e9c6e333a1969615e05936
> >      BUG: 1032894
> >      Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati at redhat.com>
> >      Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/6322
> >      Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins at build.gluster.com>
> >
> > Affected branches: master, 3.5, 3.4,
> >
> > Will be working with Venkatesh to get a fix for this on all these branches.
> > Good catch venkatesh!!. Thanks a lot for a simple case to re-create the
> > issue :-).
> 
> Thanks for the analysis, Pranith & Venkatesh! Let us make sure that we
> add this test case to our regression tests.
> 
> >
> > Vijay,
> >       Do you think we need this patch for 3.4 as well? Did we get enough
> >       baking time? The change seems delicate. In the sense that all the
> >       places which are expecting ENOENT need to be carefully examined.
> >       Even if we miss one place, we have a potential bug.
> 
> 
> We would need to fix this in 3.4 failing which we will end up with a
> regression from 3.4.1. For 3.4.2, we have two options:
> 
> 1. Revert the original commit
> 
> 2. Fix this problem

If we fix this problem, we will only be fixing this particular problem. We
don't know if there are more similar issues. That is the reason I am a bit
concerned about the nature of change introduced by the original commit.

Pranith

> 
> I think we can reach a decision after you post a fix. We can base our
> decision on the complexity/intrusiveness of the new patch.
> 
> -Vijay
> 
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