[Gluster-users] bit-rot resolution

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

Why not automate this or adding a command that does heal automatically when
corruption is found?

Nobody wants corrupted files on the storage, why you don't heal
automatically?

Something like

gluster volume bitrot *VOLNAME* heal start


Il 1 mar 2017 7:32 AM, "Sweta Anandpara" <sanandpa at redhat.com> ha scritto:

> Bitrot has a scrub process which detects the corrupted file. Once
> detected, it is the prerogative of the user to follow the sequence of steps
> [1] to trigger a heal. Having said that, client access to that file is not
> impacted as it continues to serve data from the good copy.
> Steps remain the same irrespective of a replica 2 or replica 3 volume.
>
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storag
> e/3.1/html/Administration_Guide/ch20s03.html
>
> Thanks,
> Sweta
>
> On 02/28/2017 06:28 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote:
>
>> In a replica 3, what happens in case of bit-rot detection on a file ?
>> Is gluster smart enough to detect this and automatically heal the
>> corrupted files from other replicas ?
>> What if in case of replica 2 ? How do know know which is right,
>> server1 or server2, without a quorum ?
>>
>> What if the underling FS (like ZFS) is retuning an error in case of
>> bit-rot ? ZFS should return an error if file is corrupted (and has not
>> RAID to recover from), thus gluster should see the file as
>> missing/corrupted and automatically trigger selfheal from other
>> replicas ?
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