[Gluster-users] glusterfs missing files on ls

[Stefano Sinigardi]

So, just to recap, is it ok to clone repo from github, go to tag 3.3.2qa3,
stop glusterd, configure, make & make install?

Regards,
Stefano



On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/02/2013 01:42 PM, Stefano Sinigardi wrote:
>
>> Also directories got removed. I did a really bad job in that script,
>> wrong sed and path was not truncated and replaced with the fuse
>> mountpoint...
>> Yes I can move to 3.3.2qa3. At the moment I have gluster installed as
>> per the semiosis repository. What is the best way for me to move to this
>> other version (I think that I have to build it from source?)?
>>
>
> I think qa builds are not part of semiosis' ppa repository. Copying him to
> chime in if it is otherwise.
>
> If the builds are not available, you will need to build it from source.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
>
>  Thanks and best regards,
>> Stefano
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com
>> <mailto:vbellur at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 06/02/2013 11:35 AM, Stefano Sinigardi wrote:
>>
>>         Dear Vijay,
>>         the filesystem is ext4, on a GPT structured disk, formatted by
>>         Ubuntu 12.10.
>>
>>
>>     A combination of ext4 on certain kernels and glusterfs has had its
>>     share of problems
>>     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/_**_show_bug.cgi?id=838784<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/__show_bug.cgi?id=838784>
>>     <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=838784<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838784>>)
>> for readdir
>>
>>     workloads. I am not sure if the Ubuntu 12.10 kernel is affected by
>>     this bug as well. GlusterFS 3.3.2 has an improvement which will
>>     address this problem seen with ext4.
>>
>>
>>         The rebalance I did was with the command
>>         gluster volume rebalance data start
>>         but in the log it got stuck on a file that I cannot remember (was
>> a
>>         small working .cpp file, saying that it was going to be moved to
>>         an much
>>         more occupied replica, and it repeated this message until
>>         writing a log
>>         that was a few GB).
>>         Then I stopped it and restarted with
>>         gluster volume rebalance data start force
>>         in order to get rid of this problems about files going to bricks
>>         already
>>         highly occupied.
>>         Because I was almost stuck, remembering that a rebalance solved
>>         another
>>         problem I had as a miracle, I retried it, but got stuck in a
>>         .dropbox-cache folder. That is not a very important folder, so I
>>         thought
>>         I could remove it. I launched a script to find all the files
>>         looking at
>>         all the bricks but removing them from the fuse mountpoint. I
>>         don't know
>>         what went wrong (the script is very simple, the problem maybe
>>         was that
>>         it was 4 am in the night) but the fact is that files got removed
>>         calling
>>         rm at the bricks mountpoints, not the fuse one. So I think that
>>         now I'm
>>         in a even worse situation that before. I just stopped working on
>> it,
>>         asking for some time from my colleagues (at least data is still
>>         there,
>>         on the bricks, just sparse on all of them) in order to think
>>         well about
>>         how to proceed (maybe destroying it and rebuilding it, but it
>>         will be
>>         very time consuming as I don't have so much free space elsewere
>>         to save
>>         everything, also it's very difficult to save from the fuse
>>         mountpoint as
>>         it's not listing all the files)
>>
>>
>>     Were only files removed from the brick mountpoints or did
>>     directories get removed too?  Would it be possible for you to move
>>     to 3.3.2qa3 and check if ls does list all files present in the
>>     bricks? Note that, qa3 is not yet GA and might see a few fixes
>>     before it becomes so.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Vijay
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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