[Gluster-users] AFR not working

[Vikas Gorur]

Adrian Revill wrote:
> Thanks Vikas,
>
> You were right, i commented out the stat-prefetch section and the sync 
> now works. Perhaps the glusterfs-volgen should not put it in for raid 1
We'll review this and see if we can tweak stat-prefetch to allow 
replicate sync's
to happen sooner.
> So it looks like to make a fully redundant system we need to poll the 
> client mount points with ls -lR at least at server startup.
> For scalability, the servers should run the client mount on itself and 
> poll itself.
> Surely a feature to trigger a full re-sync should be part of the 
> server daemon, perhaps first client to connect gets a please sync me 
> message.
That's something to think about. I'm not sure if such a re-sync
is best done by GlusterFS or by an external tool.
> I found a little gotcha with file deletion
>
> 2 servers running, create a file, and shut down server2, delete the 
> file and shut down server1. Start server2 and the file reappears, 
> which is expected, start server1 and the file remains and is synced 
> back to server1.
> This means in case of a server failure, server restarts,  the order 
> that servers are restarted is very important if the un-deletion of 
> files is an issue.
I'll look into this. GlusterFS in general takes a conservative approach and
when in doubt prefers to retain data than deleting.
> I also found that lsattr does not work with glusterfs
> lsattr /mnt/export/
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on 
> /mnt/export/t2

lsattr is a tool specific to Ext2/Ext3 filesystems and will not work on
other filesystems (be they fuse-based or disk-based like ReiserFS or XFS).

Vikas