[Gluster-users] How to identify a files shard?

[Krutika Dhananjay]

Each shard is also associated with a gfid.

So do you see the gfids of these 8 shards in the .glusterfs/indices/xattrop
directory on any of the bricks?

-Krutika

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Lindsay Mathieson <
lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/04/2016 11:14 PM, Krutika Dhananjay wrote:
>
>> You'll see at least 2 paths listed for this inode number (because they're
>> hardlinks of each other).
>> One of them is the .glusterfs/... path which is internally maintained by
>> gluster.
>>
>> The other path (or paths if the application itself created hard links to
>> this file) is the one belonging to the main file that this shard belongs to.
>>
>
>
> Thanks Krutika, very useful.
>
> As part of testing today I stopped the volume and generated a md5sum for
> every shard on every brick. 20047 shards per brick, it took a while :)
>
> I then compared them and found there were 8 shards different and applying
> your algorithm found they were all from one file:
>
>   /images/307/vm-307-disk-1.qcow2
>
> Is there anyway to launch a heal against just one file?
>
> --
> Lindsay Mathieson
>
>
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