[Gluster-users] Random and frequent split brain

Pranith Kumar Karampuri pkarampu at redhat.com
Thu Jul 17 02:38:47 UTC 2014


On 07/17/2014 07:28 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <me at nileshgr.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having a weird issue. I have this config:
>>
>> node2 ~ # gluster peer status
>> Number of Peers: 1
>>
>> Hostname: sto1
>> Uuid: f7570524-811a-44ed-b2eb-d7acffadfaa5
>> State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
>>
>> node1 ~ # gluster peer status
>> Number of Peers: 1
>>
>> Hostname: sto2
>> Port: 24007
>> Uuid: 3a69faa9-f622-4c35-ac5e-b14a6826f5d9
>> State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
>>
>> Volume Name: home
>> Type: Replicate
>> Volume ID: 54fef941-2e33-4acf-9e98-1f86ea4f35b7
>> Status: Started
>> Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
>> Transport-type: tcp
>> Bricks:
>> Brick1: sto1:/data/gluster/home
>> Brick2: sto2:/data/gluster/home
>> Options Reconfigured:
>> performance.write-behind-window-size: 2GB
>> performance.flush-behind: on
>> performance.cache-size: 2GB
>> cluster.choose-local: on
>> storage.linux-aio: on
>> transport.keepalive: on
>> performance.quick-read: on
>> performance.io-cache: on
>> performance.stat-prefetch: on
>> performance.read-ahead: on
>> cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: diff
>> nfs.disable: on
>>
>> sto1/2 is alias to node1/2 respectively.
>>
>> As you see, NFS is disabled so I'm using the native fuse mount on both nodes.
>> The volume contains files and php scripts that are served on various
>> websites. When both nodes are active, I get split brain on many files
>> and the mount on node2 going 'input/output error' on many of them
>> which causes HTTP 500 errors.
>>
>> I delete the files from the brick using find -samefile. It fixes for a
>> few minutes and then the problem is back.
>>
>> What could be the issue? This happens even if I use the NFS mounting method.
>>
>> Gluster 3.4.4 on Gentoo.
> And yes, network connectivity is not an issue between them as both of
> them are located in the same DC. They're connected via 1 Gbit line
> (common for internal and external network) but external network
> doesn't cross 200-500 Mbit/s leaving quite a good window for gluster.
> I also tried enabling quorum but that doesn't help either.
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hi Nilesh,
       Could you attach the mount, brick logs so that we can inspect 
what is going on the setup.

Pranith



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