[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] [posix-compliance] unlink and access to file through open fd

[Raghavendra G]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Raghavendra Bhat <rabhat at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/04/2015 12:43 PM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Posix allows access to file through open fds even if name associated with
>> file is deleted. While this works for glusterfs for most of the cases,
>> there are some corner cases where we fail.
>>
>> 1. Reboot of brick:
>> ===================
>>
>> With the reboot of brick, fd is lost. unlink would've deleted both gfid
>> and path links to file and we would loose the file. As a solution, perhaps
>> we should create an hardlink to the file (say in .glusterfs) which gets
>> deleted only when last fd is closed?
>>
>> 2. Graph switch:
>> =================
>>
>> The issue is captured in bz 1259995 [1]. Pasting the content from bz
>> verbatim:
>> Consider following sequence of operations:
>> 1. fd = open ("/mnt/glusterfs/file");
>> 2. unlink ("/mnt/glusterfs/file");
>> 3. Do a graph-switch, lets say by adding a new brick to volume.
>> 4. migration of fd to new graph fails. This is because as part of
>> migration we do a lookup and open. But, lookup fails as file is already
>> deleted and hence migration fails and fd is marked bad.
>>
>> In fact this test case is already present in our regression tests, though
>> the test checks whether the fd is just marked as bad. But the expectation
>> of filing this bug is that migration should succeed. This is possible since
>> there is an fd opened on brick through old-graph and hence can be duped
>> using dup syscall.
>>
>> Of course the solution outlined here doesn't cover the case where file is
>> not present on brick at all. For eg., a new brick was added to replica set
>> and that new brick doesn't contain the file. Now, since the file is
>> deleted, how do replica heals that file to another brick etc.
>>
>> But atleast this can be solved for those cases where file was present on
>> a brick and fd was already opened.
>>
>
> Du,
>
> For this 2nd example (where the file is opened, unlinked and a graph
> swatch happens), there was a patch submitted long back.
>
> http://review.gluster.org/#/c/5428/
>

Thanks. Will take a look.


>
> Regards,
> Raghavendra Bhat
>
> 3. Open-behind and unlink from a different client:
>> ==================================================
>>
>> While open-behind handles unlink from the same client (through which open
>> was performed), if unlink and open are done from two different clients,
>> file is lost. I cannot think of any good solution for this.
>>
>> I wanted to know whether these problems are real enough to channel our
>> efforts to fix these issues. Comments are welcome in terms of solutions or
>> other possible scenarios which can lead to this issue.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259995
>>
>> regards,
>> Raghavendra.
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