[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Self Heal and dangling symlinks

Thu Nov 21 14:24:27 UTC 2013

They are both regular file on the node and the replicas and they have the same GFID.  I ran also the gluster volume heal gv0 split-brain command and the file is not in the list.  We have an entire directory though (1023 entry on a node)

However, the file was already on the brick before uploading it and I noticed that that the write did not work since the last modification date does not match the upload time.

Through a web service, we offer to upload files on the gluster mount.   This web service  upload the file on a temporary folder and then MOVE the file on the gluster mount.

Could the move operation give strange behavior like this?

Alexandre Fournier
Tools Programmer
Ubisoft Production Services

-----Original Message-----
From: Pranith Kumar Karampuri [mailto:pkarampu at redhat.com] 
Sent: 21 novembre 2013 00:47
To: Lalatendu Mohanty
Cc: Alexandre Fournier; gluster-users at gluster.org; gluster-devel at nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Self Heal and dangling symlinks

Alexandre,
   Seems like there is an entry split-brain (same file/dir name but on one brick it is a file and on the other it is a directory) according to the following log:
> [2013-11-18 18:18:43.052446] W 
> [afr-common.c:1411:afr_conflicting_iattrs]
> 0-gv0-replicate-0: /aa/aa/aa/aa: filetype differs on subvolumes (0, 1)

Could you get us the output of "stat <brick-dir-path>/aa/aa/aa/aa/aa" and "getfattr -d -m. -e hex <brick-dir-path>/aa/aa/aa/aa/aa" on both the bricks.

Pranith
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lalatendu Mohanty" <lmohanty at redhat.com>
> To: "Alexandre Fournier" <alexandre.fournier at ubisoft.com>, 
> gluster-users at gluster.org, gluster-devel at nongnu.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:28:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Self Heal and dangling 
> symlinks
> 
> On 11/19/2013 10:49 PM, Alexandre Fournier wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> We are experiencing strange behavior when writing file on the Gluster 
> mount point. On some occasion, when writing to the Gluster Mount we 
> have an Open Stream error. We’ve looked the gluster logs and found the 
> following faulty entries :
> 
> 
> 
> [From /var/log/glusterfs/mnt-gv0.log]
> 
> 
> 
> [2013-11-18 18:18:43.052446] W 
> [afr-common.c:1411:afr_conflicting_iattrs]
> 0-gv0-replicate-0: /aa/aa/aa/aa: filetype differs on subvolumes (0, 1)
> 
> [2013-11-18 18:18:43.052468] E
> [afr-self-heal-common.c:1409:afr_sh_common_lookup_cbk] 0-gv0-replicate-0:
> Conflicting entries for /aa/aa/aa/aa
> 
> [2013-11-18 18:18:43.052757] E
> [afr-self-heal-common.c:2160:afr_self_heal_completion_cbk]
> 0-gv0-replicate-0: background meta-data data entry missing-entry gfid 
> self-heal
> 
> failed on /aa/aa/aa/aa/aa
> 
> [2013-11-18 18:18:43.052780] W [fuse-bridge.c:292:fuse_entry_cbk]
> 0-glusterfs-fuse: 439382194: LOOKUP() /aa/aa/aa/aa/aa => -1 
> (Input/output
> error)
> 
> 
> 
> We’ve looked at the log file etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log but we 
> found nothing related to this problem. Then, we’ve looked at the log 
> From /var/log/glusterfs/bricks/mnt-data.log and we found 70 gig of 
> logs of the same type :
> 
> 
> 
> [2013-11-19 17:13:32.269757] W [posix-handle.c:538:posix_handle_soft]
> 0-gv0-posix: symlink 
> ../../ab/fe/abfeb61c-501d-4417-b8fb-0accdd57146f/cf -> 
> /mnt/data/.glusterfs/ab/fe/abfeb61c-501d-4417-b8fb-0accdd57146f/cf 
> failed (No such file or directory)
> 
> [2013-11-19 17:13:32.269978] W [posix-handle.c:538:posix_handle_soft]
> 0-gv0-posix: symlink 
> ../../c7/8b/c78be78f-cc95-47b2-a27f-4217f1759b67/d2 ->
> /mnt/data/.glusterfs/c7/8b/c78be78f-cc95-47b2-a27f-4217f1759b67/d2 
> failed (No such file or directory)
> 
> [2013-11-19 17:13:32.270190] W [posix-handle.c:538:posix_handle_soft]
> 0-gv0-posix: symlink 
> ../../5a/8f/5a8fa43c-4ccc-4d88-9122-a96bc8ffaebc/f2 ->
> /mnt/data/.glusterfs/5a/8f/5a8fa43c-4ccc-4d88-9122-a96bc8ffaebc/f2 
> failed (No such file or directory)
> 
> 
> 
> This looks like a bug, unless there is something wrong with the 
> set-up. I have copied gluster-devel in this thread as I think they might help.
> 
> Just curious, is all your gluster nodes have equal time (i.e. ntp synced).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And it does not stop logging. It seems that the self heal is not 
> working properly when there are broking symlinks in the gluster. It is 
> worth saying also that this log is only produce on a single node but 
> the write fail on several node though. Also, we try to clean the 
> symlinks manually but it always come back.
> 
> 
> 
> Is it possible to recover from broken symlinks?
> 
> 
> 
> Configuration :
> 
> Gluster Version : 3.3.2
> 
> Cluster setup : 4 X 2
> 
> OS : Ubuntu
> 
> On Fuse
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Alexandre
> 
> 
> 
> 
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