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

[Harshavardhana]

On 03/18/2010 07:18 PM, Lee Simpson 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.
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> 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;
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> "W [fuse-bridge.c:858:fuse_fd_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 59480: OPEN() /data/randomfile-here =>  -1 (No such file or directory)"
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> 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.
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> 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...
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>
> SOLUTION
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> 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!
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>
> Hope that helps someone else who finds this.
>
>
> - Lee
>
>
>    

Hi Lee,

     can you provide you kernel version under use?. Your volume files?.  
Let us figure out if this is related to "ext4"

Regards

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Harshavardhana
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