[Gluster-users] Question about "Possibly undergoing heal" on a file being reported.

[Ravishankar N]

On 05/05/2016 01:50 AM, Richard Klein (RSI) wrote:
>
> First time e-mailer to the group, greetings all.  We are using Gluster 
> 3.7.6 in Cloudstack on CentOS7 with KVM.  Gluster is our primary 
> storage.  All is going well but we have a test VM QCOW2 volume that 
> gets stuck in the “Possibly undergoing healing”.  By stuck I mean it 
> stays in that state for over 24 hrs.  This is a test VM with no 
> activity on it and we have removed the swap file on the guest as well 
> thinking that may be causing high I/O.  All the tools show that the VM 
> is basically idle with low I/O.  The only way I can clear it up is to 
> power the VM off, move the QCOW2 volume from the Gluster mount then 
> back (basically remove and recreate it) then power the VM back on.  
> Once I do this process all is well again but then it happened again on 
> the same volume/file.
>
> One additional note, I have even powered off the VM completely and the 
> QCOW2 file still stays in this state.
>
When this happens, can you share the output of the extended attributes 
of the file in question from all the bricks of the replica in which the 
file resides?

`getfattr -d -m . -e hex /path/to/bricks/file-name`

Also what is the size of this VM image file?

Thanks,
Ravi


> Is there a way to stop/abort or force the heal to finish?  Any help 
> with a direction would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard Klein
>
> RSI
>
>
>
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