[Gluster-users] Gluster not recognizing available space

Franco Broi Franco.Broi at iongeo.com
Sat Jan 18 00:52:52 UTC 2014


Was a long shot, you would have had to have many millions of small files to run out of inodes and it also depends on the type of filesystem but I've been caught out a few times with ext4.

On 18 Jan 2014 08:48, Pat Haley <phaley at MIT.EDU> wrote:

Hi Franco,

I checked using df -i on all 3 bricks.  No brick is over
1% inode usage.

Thanks.

Pat

> Have you run out of inodes on the underlying  filesystems?
>
> On 18 Jan 2014 05:41, Pat Haley <phaley at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
> Latest updates:
>
> no error messages were found on the log files of the bricks.
>
> The error messages appear on the client log files.  Writing
> from a second client also has the same errors.
>
> Note that if I try to write a directory with 480 6Mb files
> to /projects, over 3/4 of the files are written.  It is
> random which files are not written (i.e. it is not the
> last 1/4 of the files which fail)
>
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Some additional data
>>
>>
>>  [root at mseas-data save]# gluster volume info
>>
>>  Volume Name: gdata
>>  Type: Distribute
>>  Volume ID: eccc3a90-212d-4563-ae8d-10a77758738d
>>  Status: Started
>>  Number of Bricks: 3
>>  Transport-type: tcp
>>  Bricks:
>>  Brick1: gluster-0-0:/mseas-data-0-0
>>  Brick2: gluster-0-1:/mseas-data-0-1
>>  Brick3: gluster-data:/data
>>
>>
>>
>>  [root at mseas-data save]# gluster volume status
>>  Status of volume: gdata
>>  Gluster process                                         Port
> Online  Pid
>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>>
>>  Brick gluster-0-0:/mseas-data-0-0                       24009   Y 27006
>>  Brick gluster-0-1:/mseas-data-0-1                       24009   Y
>>  7063
>>  Brick gluster-data:/data                                24010   N
>>  8007
>>  NFS Server on localhost                                 38467   Y
>>  8013
>>  NFS Server on gluster-0-1                               38467   Y 10228
>>  NFS Server on 10.1.1.10                                 38467   Y
>>  3867
>>
>>
>>  Noticing that the brick gluster-data:/data was appearing as N
>>  in the "online" column, I tried (1) detaching gluster-data (using
>>  gluster peer detach gluster-data issued from gluster-0-0), (2) removing
>>  /var/lib/glusterd, (3) restarting glusterd on gluster-data,
>>  (4) reattaching /gluster-data (using gluster peer probe gluster-data
>>  issued from gluster-0-0) then (5) restart glusterd one more time on all
>>  3 bricks.  The brick gluster-data:/data still appears as N in the Online
>>  column.
>>
>>  [root at mseas-data save]# gluster peer status
>>  Number of Peers: 2
>>
>>  Hostname: gluster-0-1
>>  Uuid: 393fc4a6-1573-4564-971e-1b1aec434167
>>  State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
>>
>>  Hostname: 10.1.1.10
>>  Uuid: 3619440a-4ca3-4151-b62e-d4d6bf2e0c03
>>  State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
>>
>>  (similarly from the other bricks)
>>
>>  Ping works between all bricks too.
>>
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We are using gluster to present 3 bricks as a single name space.
>> > We appear to have a situation in which gluster thinks there
>> > is no disk space when there is actually plenty. I have restarted
>> > the glusterd deamons on all three bricks and I still get the
>> > following message
>> >
>> > /bin/cp: cannot create regular file
>> > `./Bottom_Gravity_Current_25/344.mat': No space left on device
>> >
>> > This is a 6Mbyte file.  The total space available on
>> > gluster is 3.6T
>> >
>> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > mseas-data:/gdata      55T   51T  3.6T  94% /gdata
>> >
>> > Also, no single brick is full:
>> >
>> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/mapper/the_raid-lv_data
>> >                        15T   14T  804G  95% /data
>> >
>> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sdb1              21T   18T  2.1T  90% /mseas-data-0-0
>> >
>> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> > /dev/sdb1              21T   20T  784G  97% /mseas-data-0-1
>> >
>> > What should we do to fix this problem or look at to diagnose
>> > this problem?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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