[Gluster-users] About gluster fsck question, thanks

M S Vishwanath Bhat msvbhat at gmail.com
Wed May 13 12:43:41 UTC 2015


On 12 May 2015 at 17:48, zhengbin.08747 at h3c.com <zhengbin.08747 at h3c.com>
wrote:

>  I want to know how glusterfs run fsck, I found some thing about fsck on
> the internet
>

glusterfs itself will *not* run any fsck on the brick. That should be taken
care by the filesystem of backend bricks (XFS and ext4). gluster just makes
sure that both the bricks of the replica pair are consistent.

Best Regards,
Vishwanath



>
>
> *What happens if a GlusterFS brick crashes?*
>
> You treat it like any other storage server. The underlying filesystem will
> run fsck and recover from crash. With journaled file system such as Ext3 or
> XFS, recovery is much faster and safer. When the brick comes back,
> glusterfs fixes all the changes on it by its self-heal feature.
>
>
>
>
>
> So this means glusterfs just use the underlying filesystem’s fsck, Does
> glusterfs have it’s own fsck?
>
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