[Gluster-users] Shard file size (gluster 3.7.5)

Krutika Dhananjay kdhananj at redhat.com
Tue Nov 3 04:28:39 UTC 2015


Correction. The option needs to be enabled and not disabled. 

# gluster volume set <VOL> performance.strict-write-ordering on 

-Krutika 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com>
> To: "Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>
> Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 9:52:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Shard file size (gluster 3.7.5)

> Could you try this again with performance.strict-write-ordering set to 'off'?

> # gluster volume set <VOL> performance.strict-write-ordering off

> -Krutika

> ----- Original Message -----

> > From: "Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>
> 
> > To: "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com>, "gluster-users"
> > <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> 
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:26:41 AM
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Shard file size (gluster 3.7.5)
> 

> > I can reproduce this 100% reliably, just by coping files onto a gluster
> > volume. Reported File size is always larger, sometimes radically so. If I
> > copy the file again, the reported file is different each time.
> 

> > using cmp I found that the file contents match, up to the size of the
> > original file.
> 

> > MD5SUMS probably differ because of the different file sizes.
> 

> > On 2 November 2015 at 18:49, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com >
> > wrote:
> 

> > > Could you share
> > 
> 
> > > (1) the output of 'getfattr -d -m . -e hex <path>' where <path>
> > > represents
> > > the path to the original file from the brick where it resides
> > 
> 
> > > (2) the size of the file as seen from the mount point around the time
> > > when
> > > (1) is taken
> > 
> 
> > > (3) output of 'gluster volume info'
> > 
> 

> > > -Krutika
> > 
> 

> > > > From: "Lindsay Mathieson" < lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com >
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > > To: "gluster-users" < gluster-users at gluster.org >
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > > Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2015 6:29:44 AM
> > > 
> > 
> 
> > > > Subject: [Gluster-users] Shard file size (gluster 3.7.5)
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > Have upgraded my cluster to debian jessie, so able to natively test
> > > > 3.7.5
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > I’ve noticed some peculiarities with reported file sizes on the gluster
> > > > mount
> > > > but I seem to recall this is a known issue with shards?
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > Source file is sparse, nominal size 64GB, real size 25GB. However
> > > > underlying
> > > > storage is ZFS with lz4 compression which reduces it to 16GB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > No Shard:
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > ls –lh : 64 GB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > du –h : 25 GB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > 4MB Shard:
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > ls –lh : 144 GB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > du –h : 21 MB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > 512MB Shard:
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > ls –lh : 72 GB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > du –h : 765 MB
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > a du –sh of the .shard directory show 16GB for all datastores
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > Is this a known bug for sharding? Will it be repaired eventually?
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> > > 
> > 
> 

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> > --
> 
> > Lindsay
> 

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