[Gluster-users] AFR issue when server fails

[Krishna Srinivas]

Keith,
Assuming that you are using one of the recent releases from 1.4, 2nd
server's glusterfs should not have got hung and should have timed out.
Can you easily reproduce this problem?
Krishna

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com> wrote:
> ok, so I ran into another afr problem tonight.
>
> I have 2 servers afr-ing eachother.
> one of them had a keniption and was in some strange half working state.
> the other one was working fine.
>
> I rebooted the half working one and gluster hung on the other one.
> it failed to timeout as expected, and just sat there until the other
> machine was pingable. then it realized it was there but not accepting
> connections (since it wasn't up enough to mount the filesystem
> yet).  At this point the good server started moving along ok.
>
> so it seems that AFR does the right thing when the IP address is
> connectable but the AFR process or port isn't responding, but if the
> machine/ip is completely down, then it just hangs seemingly forever.
>
> ??
>
>
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