[Gluster-users] Random "No such file or directory" error in gluster client logs - FIXED

[Benjamin Long]

Are we sure it wasn't a problem with the file system that simply reformatting 
fixed? Maybe reformatting with ext4 again would have fixed it too.

-- 
Benjamin Long

On Thursday 18 March 2010 02:16:46 pm phil cryer wrote:
> > The solution was quite simple. It turned out that it was because the
> > server's data drive was formatted in ext4. Switched it to ext3 and the
> > problems went away!
> 
> Is this a known issue with Gluster 3.0.3?  I've setup our cluster with
> ext4 on Debian, but have not had any issues like this yet (but we're
> not running live yet).  Is this something to be concerned about?
> Should we change everything back to ext3?
> 
> P
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Lee Simpson <lee at leenix.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just thought id share the experience i had with a gluster client error
> > and the solution i found after much searching and chatting with some IRC
> > guys.
> >
> > Im running a simple 2 server with multiple clients using
> > cluster/replicate. Randomly newly created files produced the following
> > error in the gluster client logs when accessed;
> >
> > "W [fuse-bridge.c:858:fuse_fd_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 59480: OPEN()
> > /data/randomfile-here => -1 (No such file or directory)"
> >
> > These files are created by apache or other scripts (such as awstats on a
> > cron).  Apache is then unable to read the file, and the above message
> > appears in the gluster logs everytime you try. If i SSH into the apache
> > server and cat the file it displays fine and then apache starts reading
> > it fine.
> >
> > I upgraded the client and server to 3.03 and tried reducing my configs to
> > the bare min without any performance volumes..  But the problem
> > persisted...
> >
> >
> > SOLUTION
> >
> > The solution was quite simple. It turned out that it was because the
> > server's data drive was formatted in ext4. Switched it to ext3 and the
> > problems went away!
> >
> >
> > Hope that helps someone else who finds this.
> >
> >
> > - Lee