[Gluster-users] lingering <gfid:*> entries in volume heal, gluster 3.6.3

[Kingsley]

On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 22:24 +0530, Ravishankar N wrote:
> On 07/15/2016 09:55 PM, Kingsley wrote:
> > This has revealed something. I'm now seeing lots of lines like this in
> > the shd log:
> >
> > [2016-07-15 16:20:51.098152] D [afr-self-heald.c:516:afr_shd_index_sweep] 0-callrec-replicate-0: got entry: eaa43674-b1a3-4833-a946-de7b7121bb88
> > [2016-07-15 16:20:51.099346] D [client-rpc-fops.c:1523:client3_3_inodelk_cbk] 0-callrec-client-2: remote operation failed: Stale file handle
> > [2016-07-15 16:20:51.100683] D [client-rpc-fops.c:2686:client3_3_opendir_cbk] 0-callrec-client-2: remote operation failed: Stale file handle. Path: <gfid:eaa43674-b1a3-4833-a946-de7b7121bb88> (eaa43674-b1a3-4833-a946-de7b7121bb88)
> 
> Looks like the files are not present at all in client-2 which is why you 
> see these messages.
> Find out the files/directory names corresponding to these gfids from one 
> of the healthy bricks and see if they are present in client-2 as well. 
> If not try accessing them from the mount. That should create any missing 
> entries in client-2. Then launch heal again.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Ravi

OK, I think I'll script something to find those; it could take many
hours to search through to find them.

Meanwhile, is it safe for me to send a HUP to the glusterd process? And
if so, might that make the shd re-establish its 0-callrec-client-2
handle?

Cheers,
Kingsley.