[Gluster-users] 2.0.6

[Anand Avati]

> I have experienced similar problems with df hanging, transport endpoint
> disconnected, server locked ... with no apparent reason when copying
> a lot of files to the glusterfs file system. No idea if this is the real
> cause but since i changed something in the configuration the problems stop
> (by now). I had two servers exporting two unified bricks that were
> replicated on clients (two different replicated bricks), on the client
> configuration i had two vol files on each client, one for each different
> gluster bricks but both of them use the same names for the bricks (vol
> files where identical except for the option remote-subvolume brick
> values). Once i changed the name of the bricks so each file had
> bricks with names not identical to the other vol file the problems
> disapeared. Not sure if this was the problem or not but by now the
> problem has no appeared again.

The problem you describe is a very different on than what is being
discussed. What you describe is a configuration issue, resulting in
glusterfs' fuse mountpoint to hang. The issue being discussed has the
configuration alright and the _backend_ fs is hanging.

Avati