[Gluster-users] Self healing does not see files to heal

[Ravishankar N]

On 08/17/2016 10:40 AM, Krutika Dhananjay wrote:
> Good question.
>
> Any attempt from a client to access /.shard or its contents from the 
> mount point will be met with an EPERM (Operation not permitted). We do 
> not expose .shard on the mount point.
>

Just to be clear, I was referring to the shard xlator accessing the 
participant shard by sending a named lookup when we access the file (say 
'cat /mount/file > /dev/null`) from the mount.
I removed a shard and its hard-link from one of the bricks of a 2 way 
replica, unmounted the client, stopped and started the volume and did 
read the file from a fresh mount. For some reason (I need to debug why), 
a reverse heal seems to be happening where both bricks of the 2-replica 
volume end up with zero byte file for the shard in question.
-Ravi

> -Krutika
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Ravishankar N 
> <ravishankar at redhat.com <mailto:ravishankar at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/17/2016 07:25 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
>
>         On 17 August 2016 at 11:24, Ravishankar N
>         <ravishankar at redhat.com <mailto:ravishankar at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>             The right way to heal the corrupted files as of now is to
>             access them from
>             the mount-point like you did after removing the
>             hard-links. The list of
>             files that are corrupted can be obtained with the scrub
>             status command.
>
>
>         Hows that work with sharding where you can't see the shards
>         from the
>         mount point?
>
>     If sharding xlator does a named lookup of the shard in question as
>     and when it is accessed, AFR can heal it. But I'm not sure if that
>     is the case though. Let me check and get back.
>     -Ravi
>
>
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