[Gluster-users] A brick become full Capacity when an other Brick is offline ( Both Bricks same replication)

[Anders Blomdell]

On 2014-07-10 04:45, Tuân Tạ Bá wrote:
> Hi eveyone,
> 
> A Bick be offline, and after a few hours an Other brick appear  disk full.
> server1:
> /dev/sdl7       1.7T  1.7T  120K 100% /export/sdl
> 
> I traced some files on same brick (same data link): Same file but its
> capacity displayed difference.
> 
> server1:
>     *31G* /export/sdl/brick/_base/ffa8a988bfbd019bbd1920d4135ed8913f2b56f3
> server2:
>   *  12G* /export/sdl/brick/_base/ffa8a988bfbd019bbd1920d4135ed8913f2b56f3
> 
> MD5SUM the above path => same md5 code: 791d0d8dd8c67859fe682e1d008ccca2
> server1:
>     *791d0d8dd8c67859fe682e1d008ccca2*
> /export/sdl/brick/_base/ffa8a988bfbd019bbd1920d4135ed8913f2b56f3
> server2:
>     *791d0d8dd8c67859fe682e1d008ccca2*
> /export/sdl/brick/_base/ffa8a988bfbd019bbd1920d4135ed8913f2b56f3
OK the smaller file is a sparse file, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file
> 
> 
> I don't understand why the Brick becomes capacity full?
Could it be a striped volume?

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.1/html/Administration_Guide/sect-User_Guide-Setting_Volumes-Striped_Replicated.html
> Thanks!
> TuanTaBa

/Anders


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