[Gluster-users] Recovering out of sync nodes from input/output error

[Jeff Darcy]

On 04/12/2012 11:51 AM, Alex Florescu wrote:
>     (3) The reason you continue to get I/O errors is probably that the xattrs on
>     the *parent directory* still indicate pending operations on both sides.  You
>     can verify this with the following command on each brick:
> 
>            getfattr -d -e hex -n trusted.glusterfs.dht /a
> 
>  
> Unfortunately:
> getfattr: /a: Input/output error 
> And when running on any working instance, it says trusted.glusterfs.dht: No
> such attribute.

Oops, my mistake.  It appears that the bricks are at /local on each of the
servers, so do the getfattr there.

> As per documentation, triggering a self heal is done by
> find <gluster-mount> -noleaf -print0 | xargs --null stat (where <gluster-mount>
> is /a) - but again, /a cannot be accessed.

It still does a stat() on the top-level directory; that's the call that
generates the error.  Alternatively, to heal just a single item, "ls -ld /a" or
"stat /a" would be sufficient.