[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Trashcan issue with vim editor

[PankaJ Singh]

Hi,

Thanks Anoop for the help,
Would you please tell me when can we expect this new release with this bug
fix.


Thanks & Reagrds



On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Anoop C S <anoopcs at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 15:25 +0530, PankaJ Singh wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are using gluster 3.7.6 on ubuntu 14.04. We are facing an issue
> > with trashcan feature.
> > Our scenario is as follow:
> >
> > 1. 2 node server (ubuntu 14.04 with glusterfs 3.7.6)
> > 2. 1 client node (ubuntu 14.04)
> > 3. I have created one volume vol1 with 2 bricks in replica and with
> > transport = tcp mode.
> > 4. I have enabled quota on vol1
> > 5. Now I have enabled trashcan feature on vol1
> > 6. Now I have mounted vol1 on client's home directory "mount -t
> > glusterfs -o transport=tcp server-1:/vol1 /home/"
> > 7. Now when I logged in via any existing non-root user and perform
> > any editing via vim editor then I getting this error "E200: *ReadPre
> > autocommands made the file unreadable" and my user's home
> > directory permission get changed to 000. after sometime these
> > permission gets revert back automatically.
> >
> > (NOTE: user's home directories are copied in mounted directory
> > glusterfs volume vol1)
> >
>
> As discussed over irc, we will definitely look into this issue [1] and
> get back asap. On the other side, I have some solid reasons in
> recommending not to use swap/backup files, created/used by Vim, when
> trash is enabled for a volume (assuming you have the basic vimrc config
> where swap/backup files are enabled by default):
>
> 1. You will see lot of foo.swpx/foo.swp files (with time stamp appended
>    in their filenames) inside trashcan as Vim creates and removes these
>    swap files every now and then.
>
> 2. Regarding backup files, you will notice a list of 4913 named files
>    inside .trashcan. These files are created and deleted by Vim to make
>    sure that it can create files in the current directory. And of
>    course every time you save it with :w.
>
> 3. Similar is the case with undo files like .foo.un~.
>
> 4. Last but not the least, every time you do a :w, Vim performs a
>    truncate operation which will cause the previous version of file to
>    be moved to .trashcan.
>
> Having said that, you can insert the following lines to your vimrc file
> to prevent those unnecessary files, described through first 3 points,
> to land inside .trashcan.
>
> set noundofile
> set noswapfile
> set nobackup
> set nowritebackup
>
> As per the current implementation, we cannot prevent previous versions
> of file being created inside trash directory and I think these files
> will serve as backup files for future which is a good to have feature.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302307
>
> --Anoop C S
>
> >
> > Thanks & Regards
> > PankaJ Singh
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