[Gluster-users] Node down and volumes unreachable

[Vijay Bellur]

On 02/13/2014 08:06 PM, Marco Zanger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’m experiencing a strange issue related to both distribute and
> replicate volumes. The problem is this:
>
> I have two servers, A and B. Both share some replicate volumes and
> distribute volumes, like this:
>
> Volume Name: upload_path
>
> Type: Replicate
>
> Volume ID: 15ca11e2-206e-414d-8299-3ae20c54bd8a
>
> Status: Started
>
> Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
>
> Transport-type: tcp
>
> Bricks:
>
> Brick1: <IP-A>:<some_path>/upload_path
>
> Brick2: <IP-B>: <some_path>/upload_path
>
> Each server mounts to self like this. In server A:
>
> glusterfs#<IP_A>:upload_path on <some_path>/upload_path type fuse
> (rw,default_permissions,allow_other,max_read=131072)
>
> I’ve used both glusterfs and nfs for my tests, but when server B is down
> (unreachable from A) we cannot access (nor read or write) the volumes
> within A.

By inaccessible state, do you refer to read/write operations hanging or 
erroring out? Does it stay forever in this inaccessible state? If you 
check your client log files around the time server B is unreachable from 
A, there might be some clues around this behavior.

-Vijay