[Gluster-users] Initiating and Monitoring Heal Process

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 08/01/2013 05:32 AM, Joel Young wrote:
> In particular:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html/Administration_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Managing_Volumes-Self_heal.html
>
>
> shows output being generated from these commands which I am not seeing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joel
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Joel Young <jdy at cryregarder.com> wrote:
>> Using gluster 3.4.0, how do I monitor the heal status for a volume?
>>
>> In the gluster cli, I type:
>>
>> "volume heal home info" and it returns nothing, just bringing up the
>> "gluster>" prompt after waiting a while.  Does this mean that the system
>> thinks nothing is wrong?
>>
>> If I type "volume heal home", again the system waits a while and
>> output nothing, returning to the "gluster>" prompt.  Should this
>> output something?
>>
>> Repeating the "volume heal home info" returns nothing if run again
>> after the above.
>>
>> volume status report "There are no active volume tasks".
>>
>> Shouldn't the above commands output something?  Even if the something is
>> "Volume is completely healthy no files have been or need healing"?
>>
>> Are there good docs on this somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Joel
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users at gluster.org
> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
The issue seems like a bug (mentioned below) which is already reported. 
If you also think it is the bug , please add your comments to the bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829170

 From the bug description:

Actual Result:-
------------------
[06/06/12 - 02:05:48 root at AFR-Server1 ~]# gluster v heal vol  info
[06/06/12 - 02:09:31 root at AFR-Server1 ~]# echo $?
130
[06/06/12 - 02:09:34 root at AFR-Server1 ~]# gluster v heal vol  info
operation failed
[06/06/12 - 02:11:17 root at AFR-Server1 ~]# gluster v heal vol  info healed
operation failed
[06/06/12 - 02:11:28 root at AFR-Server1 ~]# gluster v heal vol  info heal-failed
operation failed

[06/06/12 - 02:11:45 root at AFR-Server1 ~]# gluster v heal vol  info heal-failed
operation failed

Thanks,
-Lala