[Gluster-users] "Granular locking" - does this need to be enabled in 3.3.0 ?

[Jake Grimmett]

Dear All,

I have a pair of Scientific Linux 6.2 servers, acting as KVM 
virtualisation hosts for ~30 VM's. The VM images are stored in a 
replicated gluster volume shared between the two servers. Live migration 
works fine, and the sanlock prevents me from (stupidly) starting the 
same VM on both machines. Each server has 10GB ethernet and a 10 disk 
RAID5 array.

If I migrate all the VM's to server #1 and shutdown server #2, all works 
perfectly with no interruption. When I restart server #2, the VM's 
freeze while the self-heal process is running - and this healing can 
take a long time.

I'm not sure if "Granular Locking" is on. It's listed as a "technology 
preview" in the Redhat Storage server 2 notes - do I need to do anything 
to enable it?

i.e. set "cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm" to diff ?
or edit "cluster.self-heal-window-size" ?

any tips from other people doing similar much appreciated!

Many thanks,

Jake

jog <---at---> mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk