[Gluster-users] split-brain recovery automation, any plans?

[Ravishankar N]

On 07/11/2016 01:54 PM, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> 11.07.2016 12:18, Ravishankar N пишет:
>> On 07/11/2016 01:24 PM, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>>
>>> We just got split-brain during update to 3.7.13 ;-)
>>>
>>> This was our first time we hit this, and we found that it is not 
>>> easy to follow and change xattrs metadata.
>>> So, could you tell me, are there any plans to simplify this?
>>> Let's say, add tool to choose preferred copy (brick) to heal others 
>>> from and, thus, avoid all this direct xattr manipulations?
>>
>> Commands are already available to resolve split-brains from the 
>> gluster command line or from the fuse mount too. 
>> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/blob/master/done/Features/heal-info-and-split-brain-resolution.md 
>> is a bit dated but has some examples.
>>
>> -Ravi
>>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Unfortunately, first link I found was
> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Troubleshooting/split-brain/
> and it contains old info... :-(

You were looking at the right place, it is just that readthedocs hasn't 
been updated to show the content that I referred to. I'll send a patch 
to update the doc.
Thanks for reporting.
Ravi

>
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> btw, 3.7.13 works ok with qemu gfapi on centos7 :-)
>>>
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