[Gluster-devel] What does xdata mean? "gfid-req"?

[Poornima Gurusiddaiah]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soumya Koduri" <skoduri at redhat.com>
> To: "Zhitao Li" <zhitaoli1201 at outlook.com>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Cc: "Zhitao Li" <zhitaoli1201 at 163.com>, 1318078301 at qq.com, "Poornima Gurusiddaiah" <pgurusid at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 2:21:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] What does xdata mean? "gfid-req"?
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/18/2017 06:51 PM, Zhitao Li wrote:
> > Hello, everyone,
> >
> >
> > I am investigating  the difference between stat and lookup operations in
> > GlusterFs now. In the translator named "md_cache", stat operation will
> > hit the cache generally, while lookup operation will miss the cache.
> >
> >
> > The reason is that for lookup operation, md_cache will check whether the
> > xdata is satisfied. In my case, lookup will include xdata "gfid-req"
> > filled by fuse-bridge. However, in md_cache, this check never pass
> > because the load flag of mdc_key "gfid-req"  is always 0.
> 
> Client(in this case fuse-bridge) generates gfid and sets it as xdata
> 'gfid-req' key during the first lookup so as to let server heal the
> file/dir with the missing gfid (if any) with the newly generated one.
> 
> I guess md-cache ignores the LOOKUP fop with this xdata key set as it
> implies that its the first lookup done by the client. Even if it doesn't
> filter it out, the file/dir entry will not be present in the
> cache then. Subsequent LOOKUPs should be served from md-cache. Poornima
> (cc'ed) shall be able to clarify the actual reason.

Yes, gfid-req will be set only on the first lookup. If not then that definitely
needs to be looked at.

> 
> Thanks,
> Soumya
> 
> >
> >
> > Could anyone tell me why "gfid-req" is filled by
> > fuse-bridge.c(fuse_getattr: nodeid==1->lookup)? What does it mean? And
> > how xdata is used?
> 
> 
> >
> > If no xdata, what would happen?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Zhitao Li
> >
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> >
> >
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