[Gluster-users] How to debug unify self-heal ?

[Raghavendra G]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Will Rouesnel <
electricitylikesme at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Periodically on my gluster setup, unify will fail to display the files that
> are some of the bricks. The only way I've found to correct this is to
> delete
> the containing directory from the glusterfs mount and then recopy it
> through
> the glusterfs mount.
>
> The files on the bricks themselves are fine and if I access them directly
> they are perfectly usable.
>
> What I can't work out, is what property of the files comes up that causes
> this behavior from unify. I'm not using AFR, and if I try to directly
> access
> the files then the unify log will generate an error indicating it found the
> file on the brick but not in the namespace. However if I list the contents
> of the directory, the file does not show up.


Are the files which you cannot ls on glusterfs mount present on the
namespace node?


>
>  - Will
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: krishna.zresearch at gmail.com [mailto:krishna.zresearch at gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Krishna Srinivas
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:53 PM
> To: Will Rouesnel
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] How to debug unify self-heal ?
>
> Will,
> What problem are you facing? If you could tell that we can fix it. The
> problem can be as simple as incorrect spec file.
> Regards
> Krishna
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Will Rouesnel
> <electricitylikesme at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > My ongoing saga in trying to get unify to work consistently across all
> > my files - does anyone know what the best way to debug the file
> > accesses going on on my bricks would be? Running glusterfs in debug
> > mode doesn't appear to yield any useful information - what's
> > concerning me is I can't tell whether gluster tries to access the
> > files on the brick and fails (and hence doesn't show them up in the
> > unify view) and if that's the case, at what level is it failing?
> >
> > - Will
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Raghavendra G
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