[Gluster-devel] glusterfs 3.6.0beta3 fills up inodes

[Andrea Tartaglia]

Raised it on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169331

I'll keep track of it.

Thanks,
Andrea

> Venky Shankar <mailto:yknev.shankar at gmail.com>
> 30 November 2014 01:43
> The secondary node (passive replica) collects changelogs in 
> ".processing" as the primary node (first replica) performs the 
> synchronization. On a replica failover, the passive replica (now 
> active) starts where the primary left. This _overload_ of changelog 
> backlog in the passive node is the cause of inode fill up (In primary, 
> changelog are moved to ".processed" which would still fill up inodes, 
> but I guess you purge them periodically now).
>
> I guess you'd need to purge changlogs from ".processing" in the 
> secondary node, but the correct thing to do is to perform this 
> automatically in geo-replication. Could you raise a bug for this?
>
>     Venky
>
>
> Andrea Tartaglia <mailto:me at andreatartaglia.com>
> 28 November 2014 11:46
> Hi, Incurred in this problem again. After purging the .processed 
> everything went ok for a while. But now the .processing directory is 
> filling up which is going to bring to the same issue.
>
> After some further investigation I found that this is happening only 
> on the secondary node, the primary one cleans up everything from the 
> .processing as soon as the file gets synced.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Venky Shankar <mailto:yknev.shankar at gmail.com>
> 13 November 2014 02:28
> It's safe to purge everything under .processed. That what geo-rep had 
> already replicated, so it's OK to delete it.
>
> Also, consider purging these entries periodically as geo-rep doesn't 
> purge them on it's own (at least for now).
>
>     Venky
>
>

-- 
Andrea

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