[Gluster-users] Kicking a stuck heal

[Dave Sherohman]

A month and a half later, I've finally managed to make the necessary
arrangements and upgraded last week from gluster 3.8.8 to 3.12.15.

Doing the upgrade cleared up the substantial majority of the entries
which refused to heal, but there are still 5 outstanding entries after
allowing some days to complete them.  (I finished upgrades on the
affected subvolume on Wednesday last week and the other two subvolumes
on Friday.  And didn't touch anything over the weekend, of course.)

So, going back to my original question, what can I do to get these
remaining entries to heal and have a fully-consistent cluster again?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 05:32:53AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> Last Friday, I rebooted one of my gluster nodes and it didn't properly
> mount the filesystem holding its brick (I had forgotten to add it to
> fstab...), so, when I got back to work on Monday, its root filesystem
> was full and the gluster heal info showed around 25000 entries needing
> to be healed.
> 
> I got the filesystems straightened out and, within a matter of minutes,
> the number of entries waiting to be healed in that subvolume dropped to
> 59.  (Showing twice, of course.  The cluster is replica 2+A, so the
> other full replica and the arbiter are both showing the same list of
> entries.)  Over a full day later, it's still at 59.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to kick the self-heal back into action and
> get those final 59 entries cleaned up?


-- 
Dave Sherohman