[Gluster-users] geo-replication fails on CentOS 6.5, gluster v 3.5.2

[James Payne]

Not sure but is this the same as bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141379

I have seen similar behaviour but in my case it was shown up due to using
Samba and every time a user created a folder (Windows calls it New Folder)
and renamed it quickly the Geo Rep version became instantly incorrect.

James


-----Original Message-----
From: Kingsley [mailto:gluster at gluster.dogwind.com] 
Sent: 27 September 2014 00:16
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: [Gluster-users] geo-replication fails on CentOS 6.5, gluster v
3.5.2

Hi,

I'm new to gluster so forgive me if I'm being an idiot. I've searched the
list archives back to May but haven't found the exact issue I've come
across, so I thought I'd ask on here.

Firstly, I'd like to thank the people working on this project. I've found
gluster to be pretty simple to get going and it seems to work pretty well so
far. It looks like it will be a good fit for the application I have in mind,
if we can get geo-replication to work reliably.

Now on to my problem ...

I've set up an additional gluster volume and configured geo-replication to
replicate the master volume to it using the instructions here:

https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markd
own/admin_distributed_geo_rep.md

To keep things simple while it was all new to me and I was just testing, I
didn't want to add confusion by thinking about using non-privileged accounts
and mountbroker and stuff so I just set everything up to use root.

Anyway, I mounted the master volume and slave on a client machine (I didn't
modify the content of the slave volume, I just mounted it so that I could
check things were working).

When I manually create or delete a few files and wait 60 seconds for
replication to do its thing, it seems to work fine.

However, when I hit it with a script to simulate intense user activity,
geo-replication breaks. I deleted the geo-replication and removed the slave
volume, then re-created and re-enabled geo-replication several times so that
I could start again from scratch. Each time, my script (which just creates,
renames and deletes files in the master volume via a glusterfs mount) runs
for barely a minute before geo-replication breaks.

I tried this with the slave volume containing just one brick, and also with
it containing 2 bricks replicating each other. Each time, it broke.

On the slave, I noticed that the geo-replication logs contained entries like
these:

[2014-09-26 16:32:23.995539] W [fuse-bridge.c:1214:fuse_err_cbk]
0-glusterfs-fuse: 6384: SETXATTR()
/.gfid/5f9b6d20-a062-4168-9333-8d28f2ba2d57 => -1 (File exists)
[2014-09-26 16:32:23.995798] W [client-rpc-fops.c:256:client3_3_mknod_cbk]
0-gv2-slave-client-0: remote operation failed: File exists. Path:
<gfid:855b5eda-f694-487c-adae-a4723fe6c316>/msg000002
[2014-09-26 16:32:23.996042] W [fuse-bridge.c:1214:fuse_err_cbk]
0-glusterfs-fuse: 6385: SETXATTR()
/.gfid/855b5eda-f694-487c-adae-a4723fe6c316 => -1 (File exists)
[2014-09-26 16:32:24.550009] W [fuse-bridge.c:1911:fuse_create_cbk]
0-glusterfs-fuse: 6469: /.gfid/05a27020-5931-4890-9b74-a77cb1aca918 => -1
(Operation not permitted)
[2014-09-26 16:32:24.550533] W [defaults.c:1381:default_release]
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.5.2/xlator/mount/fuse.so(+0x1e7d0)
[0x7fb2ebd1e7d0]
(-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.5.2/xlator/mount/fuse.so(free_fuse_state+0x93)
[0x7fb2ebd07063] (-->/usr/lib64/libglusterfs.so.0(fd_unref+0x10e)
[0x7fb2eef36fbe]))) 0-fuse: xlator does not implement release_cbk

I also noticed that at some point, rsync was returning error code 23.

Now ... I noted from the page I linked above that it requires rsync version
3.0.7 and the version that ships with CentOS 6.5 is, wait for it ... 3.0.6.
Is this going to be the issue, or is the problem something else?

If you need more logs, let me know. If you need a copy of my client script
that breaks it, let me know that and I'll send it along.

--
Cheers,
Kingsley.