[Gluster-devel] Gluster Test Thursday - Release 3.9

[Krutika Dhananjay]

Just finished testing VM storage use-case.

*Volume configuration used:*

[root at srv-1 ~]# gluster volume info

Volume Name: rep
Type: Replicate
Volume ID: 2c603783-c1da-49b7-8100-0238c777b731
Status: Started
Snapshot Count: 0
Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 3
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: srv-1:/bricks/rep1
Brick2: srv-2:/bricks/rep2
Brick3: srv-3:/bricks/rep4
Options Reconfigured:
nfs.disable: on
performance.readdir-ahead: on
transport.address-family: inet
performance.quick-read: off
performance.read-ahead: off
performance.io-cache: off
performance.stat-prefetch: off
cluster.eager-lock: enable
network.remote-dio: enable
cluster.quorum-type: auto
cluster.server-quorum-type: server
features.shard: on
cluster.granular-entry-heal: on
cluster.locking-scheme: granular
network.ping-timeout: 30
server.allow-insecure: on
storage.owner-uid: 107
storage.owner-gid: 107
cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full

Used FUSE to mount the volume locally on each of the 3 nodes (no external
clients).
shard-block-size - 4MB.

*TESTS AND RESULTS:*

*What works:*

* Created 3 vm images, one per hypervisor. Installed fedora 24 on all of
them.
  Used virt-manager for ease of setting up the environment. Installation
went fine. All green.

* Rebooted the vms. Worked fine.

* Killed brick-1. Ran dd on the three vms to create a 'src' file. Captured
their md5sum value. Verified that
the gfid indices and name indices are created under
.glusterfs/indices/xattrop and .glusterfs/indices/entry-changes
respectively as they should. Brought the brick back up. Waited until heal
completed. Captured md5sum again. They matched.

* Killed brick-2. Copied 'src' file from the step above into new file using
dd. Captured md5sum on the newly created file.
Checksum matched. Waited for heal to finish. Captured md5sum again.
Everything matched.

* Repeated the test above with brick-3 being killed and brought back up
after a while. Worked fine.

At the end I also captured md5sums from the backend of the shards on the
three replicas. They all were found to be
in sync. So far so good.

*What did NOT work:*

* Started dd again on all 3 vms to copy the existing files to new files.
While dd was running, I ran replace-brick to replace the third brick with a
new brick on the same node with a different path. This caused dd on all
three vms to simultaneously fail with "Input/Output error". I tried to read
off the files, even that failed. Rebooted the vms. By this time, /.shard is
in
split-brain as per heal-info. And the vms seem to have suffered corruption
and are in an irrecoverable state.

I checked the logs. The pattern is very much similar to the one in the
add-brick bug Lindsay reported here -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387878. Seems like something
is going wrong each time there is a graph switch.

@Aravinda and Pranith:

I will need some time to debug this, if 3.9 release can wait until it is
RC'd and fixed.
Otherwise we will need to caution the users to not do replace-brick,
add-brick etc (or any form of graph switch for that matter) *might* cause
vm corruption, irrespective of whether the users are using FUSE or gfapi,
in 3.9.0.

Let me know what your decision is.

-Krutika


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Aravinda <avishwan at redhat.com> wrote:

> Gluster 3.9.0rc2 tarball is available here
> http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/glusterfs-
> 3.9.0rc2.tar.gz
>
> regards
> Aravinda
>
>
> On Tuesday 25 October 2016 04:12 PM, Aravinda wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since Automated test framework for Gluster is in progress, we need help
>> from Maintainers and developers to test the features and bug fixes to
>> release Gluster 3.9.
>>
>> In last maintainers meeting Shyam shared an idea about having a Test day
>> to accelerate the testing and release.
>>
>> Please participate in testing your component(s) on Oct 27, 2016. We will
>> prepare the rc2 build by tomorrow and share the details before Test day.
>>
>> RC1 Link: http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-September/
>> 001442.html
>> Release Checklist: https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/
>> gluster-component-release-checklist
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Aravinda and Pranith
>>
>>
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