[Gluster-users] Hundreds of duplicate files

tbenzvi at 3vgeomatics.com tbenzvi at 3vgeomatics.com
Mon Dec 22 03:49:52 UTC 2014


Actually we are using XFS for the bricks. Still haven't made any progress on this issue, unfortunately..
 
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Hundreds of duplicate files
From: "Anders Blomdell" <anders.blomdell at control.lth.se>
Date: 12/21/14 7:42 pm
To: tbenzvi at 3vgeomatics.com, gluster-users at gluster.org


 
 On 21 December 2014 06:37:44 CET, tbenzvi at 3vgeomatics.com wrote:
 >Hi Joe,
 > 
 >Thanks for the reply. That worked; I probably forgot to do this as root
 >last time. Yet, the files still show up twice in a directory listing on
 >the mounted volume. And it seems to be random whether reading the file
 >will succeed or not. I've tried with several files and it sometimes
 >works and sometimes fails; I assume this depends on whether it locates
 >the actual file on the brick or the link file. Let me know if you have
 >any idea what's going on.
 Does the brick filesystem happen to be ext4? I havs hed the similar problem with 3.6.x and 
 ext4 (64 bit offset problem). 
 
 > 
 >Output of the command:
 > 
 >$ getfattr -m . -d -e hex
 >/data/glusterfs/safari/brick01/brick/rsc/tsx/montreal_smaller/sm_asc/stack/slc/20130210.slc.ras
 >getfattr: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
 ># file:
 >data/glusterfs/safari/brick01/brick/rsc/tsx/montreal_smaller/sm_asc/stack/slc/20130210.slc.ras
 >system.posix_acl_access=0x0200000001000600ffffffff04000600ffffffff10000600ffffffff20000400ffffffff
 >trusted.SGI_ACL_FILE=0x0000000400000001ffffffff0006000000000004ffffffff0006000000000010ffffffff0006000000000020ffffffff00040000
 >trusted.gfid=0x52c2aed77d09412d8bfd7ca70e87b196
 >trusted.glusterfs.dht.linkto=0x7361666172692d636c69656e742d3200
 > 
 > 
 >Cheers,
 >Tom
 > 
 >--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Gluster-users]
 >Hundreds of duplicate files
 >From: "Joe Julian" <joe at julianfamily.org>
 >Date: 12/20/14 8:53 pm
 >To: gluster-users at gluster.org
 >
 >Try 'getfattr -m . -d -e hex' (dot instead of dash) and, of course, do
 >that as root.
 > 
 > On 12/20/2014 06:02 PM, tbenzvi at 3vgeomatics.com wrote:
 > Hi everyone,
 > 
 >We have a distributed Gluster volume on five bricks over two servers
 >(first server running gluster 3.4.2, second server running gluster
 >3.5.1, both running Fedora 20)
 >Starting last week, doing a file listing on the mounted volume shows
 >many files with the same name appearing twice (and they are listed with
 >the same inode). Doing a search for these files, I have found 290,000
 >of them!!
 > 
 >If I do a listing of these files on the bricks themselves, it looks
 >like most are link files (du will show the file on the first server as
 >0 bytes, and the sticky bit set). The file is fine on the second
 >server. Unfortunately, running "getfattr -m - -e hex -d" on the file
 >shows NO gluster-related attributes and I believe this is why both
 >files appear in the listing. The files cannot be read by any programs
 >as it is trying to read the link file. I assume the metadata became
 >corrupted. This is a production server so we really need to know:
 > 
 >1. How did this happen, and how can we prevent it going forward? There
 >was a server crash a week ago and I believe that was the cause.
 >2. How can we heal the Gluster volume/bricks and link files. If there
 >is some straightforward way of restoring the link file pointer I can
 >write a script to do it, obviously doing this manually will be
 >impossible.
 > 
 >Thanks very much for any and all help - much appreciated!
 > 
 >Regards,
 >Tom
 > 
 > 
 >On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:07 AM, <tbenzvi at 3vgeomatics.com> wrote:
 >> Hi everyone, we have noticed some extremely odd behaviour with our
 > > distributed Gluster volume where duplicate files (same name, same or
 >> different content) are being created and stored on multiple bricks.
 >The only
 >> consistent clue is that one of the duplicate files has the sticky bit
 >set. I
 >> am hoping someone will be able to shed some light on why this is
 >happening
 >> and how we can restore the volume as there appear to be hundreds of
 >such
 > > files. I will try to provide as much pertinent information as I can.
 > >
 >> We have a 130TB Gluster volume consisting of two 20TB bricks on
 >server1, and
 > > three 40TB bricks on a server2 which were added at a later date (and
 >> rebalancing was done). The volume is mounted on server1, and accessed
 >only
 >> through this server but by many users. Both servers went down due to
 >power
 >> loss several days ago after which this problem was first noticed. We
 >ran a
 > > rebalance command on the volumes, this has not fixed the problem.
 > >
 > >
 > > Gluster volume info:
 > > Volume Name: safari
 > > Type: Distribute
 > > Volume ID: d48d0e6b-4389-4c2c-8fd1-cd2854121eda
 > > Status: Started
 > > Number of Bricks: 5
 > > Transport-type: tcp
 > > Bricks:
 > > Brick1: server1:/data/glusterfs/safari/brick00/brick
 > > Brick2: server1:/data/glusterfs/safari/brick01/brick
 > > Brick3: server2:/data/glusterfs/safari/brick02/brick
 > > Brick4: server2:/data/glusterfs/safari/brick03/brick
 > > Brick5: server2:/data/glusterfs/safari/brick04/brick
 > >
 > >
 > > Size information:
 > > /dev/sdc 37T 16T 22T 42% /data/glusterfs/safari/brick02
 > > /dev/sdd 37T 16T 22T 42% /data/glusterfs/safari/brick03
 > > /dev/sde 37T 17T 21T 45% /data/glusterfs/safari/brick04
 > > /dev/md126 11T 7.7T 2.8T 74% /data/glusterfs/safari/brick00
 > > /dev/md124 11T 8.0T 2.5T 77% /data/glusterfs/safari/brick01
 > > server2:/safari 130T 63T 68T 48% /sar
 > >
 > >
 > > Example 1:
 > > -Two files with the same name exist in one directory
 > > -They have different contents and attributes
 > > -A file listing on the mounted volume shows the same inode
 > > -The newer file has sticky bit set
 >> -Neither file is corrupted, they can both be viewed by using the
 >absolute
 > > path (on the bricks)
 > >
 > > File listing on the mounted volume
 >> 13036730497538635177 -rw-rw-r-T 1 jon users 924 Dec 15 10:42 RSLC_tab
 > > 13036730497538635177 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon users 418 Mar 18 2013 RSLC_tab
 > >
 > > Listing of the files on the bricks:
 > > 8925798411 -rw-rw-r-T+ 2 jon users 924 Dec 15 10:42
 >>
 >/data/glusterfs/safari/brick00/brick/complete/shm/rs2/ottawa/mf6_asc/stack_org/RSLC_tab
 > > 51541886672 -rw-rw-r--+ 2 1002 users 418 Mar 18 2013
 >>
 >/data/glusterfs/safari/brick02/brick/complete/shm/rs2/ottawa/mf6_asc/stack_org/RSLC_tab
 > >
 > >
 > > Example 2:
 > > -Two files with the same name exist in one directory
 > > -They have the same content and attributes
 >> -No sticky bit is set when looking at file listing on the mounted
 >volume
 >> -Sticky bit is set for one while when looking at file listing on the
 >bricks
 > > -Files are corrupted
 > >
 > > File listing on the mounted volume:
 > > 13012555852904096080 -rw-rw-r-- 1 tom users 2393848 Dec 8 2013
 > > ifg_lr/20130226_20130813.diff.phi.ras
 > > 13012555852904096080 -rw-rw-r-- 1 tom users 2393848 Dec 8 2013
 > > ifg_lr/20130226_20130813.diff.phi.ras
 > >
 > > Listing of the files on the bricks:
 > > 17058578 -rw-rw-r-T+ 2 tom users 2393848 Dec 13 17:11
 >>
 >/data/glusterfs/safari/brick00/brick/rsc/rs2/calgary/u22_dsc/stack_org/ifg_lr/20130226_20130813.diff.phi.ras
 > > 57986922129 -rw-rw-r--+ 2 1010 users 2393848 Dec 8 2013
 >>
 >/data/glusterfs/safari/brick02/brick/rsc/rs2/calgary/u22_dsc/stack_org/ifg_lr/20130226_20130813.diff.phi.ras
 > >
 > >
 > > Additionally, only some files in this directory are duplicated. The
 >> duplicated files are corrupted (can not be viewed as Raster images:
 >the
 > > original file type)
 > > The files which are not duplicated are not corrupted.
 > >
 > > File command: (notice duplicate and singleton files)
 >> ifg_lr/20091021_20100218.diff.phi.ras: Sun raster image data, 1208 x
 >1981,
 > > 8-bit, RGB colormap
 > > ifg_lr/20091021_20101016.diff.phi.ras: data
 > > ifg_lr/20091021_20101016.diff.phi.ras: data
 >> ifg_lr/20091021_20101109.diff.phi.ras: Sun raster image data, 1208 x
 >1981,
 > > 8-bit, RGB colormap
 >> ifg_lr/20091021_20101203.diff.phi.ras: Sun raster image data, 1208 x
 >1981,
 > > 8-bit, RGB colormap
 >> ifg_lr/20091021_20101227.diff.phi.ras: Sun raster image data, 1208 x
 >1981,
 > > 8-bit, RGB colormap
 >> ifg_lr/20091021_20110120.diff.phi.ras: Sun raster image data, 1208 x
 >1981,
 > > 8-bit, RGB colormap
 > > ifg_lr/20091021_20110213.diff.phi.ras: data
 > > ifg_lr/20091021_20110213.diff.phi.ras: data
 > > ifg_lr/20091021_20110309.diff.phi.ras: data
 > > ifg_lr/20091021_20110309.diff.phi.ras: sticky data
 >> ifg_lr/20091021_20110402.diff.phi.ras: Sun raster image data, 1208 x
 >1981,
 > > 8-bit, RGB colormap
 >
 >
 >
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