[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Query on healing process

Thu Mar 3 11:24:03 UTC 2016

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 03/03/2016 11:14 AM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:
>
> Hi Ravi,
>
> As I discussed earlier this issue, I investigated this issue and find that
> healing is not triggered because the "gluster volume heal c_glusterfs info
> split-brain" command not showing any entries as a outcome of this command
> even though the file in split brain case.
>
>
> Couple of observations from the 'commands_output' file.
>
> getfattr -d -m . -e hex
> opt/lvmdir/c2/brick/logfiles/availability/CELLO_AVAILABILITY2_LOG.xml
> The afr xattrs do not indicate that the file is in split brain:
> # file:
> opt/lvmdir/c2/brick/logfiles/availability/CELLO_AVAILABILITY2_LOG.xml
> trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-1=0x000000000000000000000000
> trusted.afr.dirty=0x000000000000000000000000
> trusted.bit-rot.version=0x000000000000000b56d6dd1d000ec7a9
> trusted.gfid=0x9f5e354ecfda40149ddce7d5ffe760ae
>
>
>
> getfattr -d -m . -e hex
> opt/lvmdir/c2/brick/logfiles/availability/CELLO_AVAILABILITY2_LOG.xml
> trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-0=0x000000080000000000000000
> trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-2=0x000000020000000000000000
> trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-4=0x000000020000000000000000
> trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-6=0x000000020000000000000000
> trusted.afr.dirty=0x000000000000000000000000
> trusted.bit-rot.version=0x000000000000000b56d6dcb7000c87e7
> trusted.gfid=0x9f5e354ecfda40149ddce7d5ffe760ae
>
> 1. There doesn't seem to be a split-brain going by the trusted.afr* xattrs.
>

if it is not the split brain problem then how can I resolve this.

> 2. You seem to have re-used the bricks from another volume/setup. For
> replica 2, only trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-0 and
> trusted.afr.c_glusterfs-client-1 must be present but I see 4 xattrs -
> client-0,2,4 and 6
>

could you please suggest why these entries are there because I am not able
to find out scenario. I am rebooting the one board multiple times to
reproduce the issue and after every reboot doing the remove-brick and
add-brick on the same volume for the second board.

> 3. On the rebooted node, do you have ssl enabled by any chance? There is a
> bug for "Not able to fetch volfile' when ssl is enabled:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258931
>
> Btw, you for data and metadata split-brains you can use the gluster CLI
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/blob/master/done/Features/heal-info-and-split-brain-resolution.md
> instead of modifying the file from the back end.
>

But you are saying it is not split brain problem and even the split-brain
command  is not showing any file so how can I find the bigger file in size.
Also in my case the file size is fix 2MB it is overwritten every time.

>
> -Ravi
>
>
> So, what I have done I manually deleted the gfid entry of that file from
> .glusterfs directory and follow the instruction mentioned in the following
> link to do heal
>
>
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/debugging/split-brain.md
>
> and this works fine for me.
>
> But my question is why the split-brain command not showing any file in
> output.
>
> Here I am attaching all the log which I get from the node for you and also
> the output of commands from both of the boards
>
> In this tar file two directories are present
>
> 000300 - log for the board which is running continuously
> 002500-  log for the board which is rebooted
>
> I am waiting for your reply please help me out on this issue.
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>
> Regards,
> Abhishek
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:21 PM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL <
> <abhishpaliwal at gmail.com>abhishpaliwal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Ravishankar N <
>> <ravishankar at redhat.com>ravishankar at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/26/2016 10:10 AM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes correct
>>>
>>>
>>> Okay, so when you say the files are not in sync until some time, are you
>>> getting stale data when accessing from the mount?
>>> I'm not able to figure out why heal info shows zero when the files are
>>> not in sync, despite all IO happening from the mounts. Could you provide
>>> the output of getfattr -d -m . -e hex /brick/file-name from both bricks
>>> when you hit this issue?
>>>
>>> I'll provide the logs once I get. here delay means we are powering on
>>> the second board after the 10 minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2016 9:57 AM, "Ravishankar N" < <ravishankar at redhat.com>
>>> ravishankar at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> On 02/26/2016 08:29 AM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ravi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response.
>>>>
>>>> We are using Glugsterfs-3.7.8
>>>>
>>>> Here is the use case:
>>>>
>>>> We have a logging file which saves logs of the events for every board
>>>> of a node and these files are in sync using glusterfs. System in replica 2
>>>> mode it means When one brick in a replicated volume goes offline, the
>>>> glusterd daemons on the other nodes keep track of all the files that are
>>>> not replicated to the offline brick. When the offline brick becomes
>>>> available again, the cluster initiates a healing process, replicating the
>>>> updated files to that brick. But in our casse, we see that log file of
>>>> one board is not in the sync and its format is corrupted means files are
>>>> not in sync.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just to understand you correctly, you have mounted the 2 node replica-2
>>>> volume on both these nodes and writing to a logging file from the mounts
>>>> right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Even the outcome of #gluster volume heal c_glusterfs info shows that
>>>> there is no pending heals.
>>>>
>>>> Also , The logging file which is updated is of fixed size and the new
>>>> entries will be wrapped ,overwriting the old entries.
>>>>
>>>> This way we have seen that after few restarts , the contents of the
>>>> same file on two bricks are different , but the volume heal info shows zero
>>>> entries
>>>>
>>>> Solution:
>>>>
>>>> But when we tried to put delay  > 5 min before the healing everything
>>>> is working fine.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Abhishek
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Ravishankar N <
>>>> <ravishankar at redhat.com>ravishankar at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 02/25/2016 06:01 PM, ABHISHEK PALIWAL wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here, I have one query regarding the time taken by the healing process.
>>>>> In current two node setup when we rebooted one node then the
>>>>> self-healing process starts less than 5min interval on the board which
>>>>> resulting the corruption of the some files data.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Heal should start immediately after the brick process comes up. What
>>>>> version of gluster are you using? What do you mean by corruption of data?
>>>>> Also, how did you observe that the heal started after 5 minutes?
>>>>> -Ravi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And to resolve it I have search on google and found the following link:
>>>>> <https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-troubleshooting/>
>>>>> https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/glusterfs-troubleshooting/
>>>>>
>>>>> Mentioning that the healing process can takes upto 10min of time to
>>>>> start this process.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the statement from the link:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Healing replicated volumes
>>>>>
>>>>> When any brick in a replicated volume goes offline, the glusterd
>>>>> daemons on the remaining nodes keep track of all the files that are not
>>>>> replicated to the offline brick. When the offline brick becomes available
>>>>> again, the cluster initiates a healing process, replicating the updated
>>>>> files to that brick. *The start of this process can take up to 10
>>>>> minutes, based on observation.*"
>>>>>
>>>>> After giving the time of more than 5 min file corruption problem has
>>>>> been resolved.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, Here my question is there any way through which we can reduce the
>>>>> time taken by the healing process to start?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Abhishek Paliwal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Abhishek Paliwal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
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>> Regards
>> Abhishek Paliwal
>>
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> Regards
> Abhishek Paliwal
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Regards
Abhishek Paliwal
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