[Gluster-users] question about info and info.tmp

Tue Nov 15 04:48:01 UTC 2016

Hi Atin,
I have two nodes, a node and b node, in which creating a replicate volume and then start the volume.

I will run the script as below on b node.
#!/bin/bash
i=1                           
while(($i<100))
do         

gluster volume set gv0 nfs.disable on

sleep 2s

gluster volume set gv0 nfs.disable off                      

i=$(($i+1))                                                    
done

And I  run the script as below on a node at the same time.

#!/bin/bash

i=1
while(($i<100))
do

systemctl stop glusterd

systemctl start glusterd

gluster volume info

i=$(($i+1))
done

The issue is very easy reproduced on a board.

Could you please tell me where is the point that info file is unlink?

Thanks,
Xin

在 2016-11-15 12:07:05，"Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> 写道：

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:58 AM, songxin <songxin_1980 at 126.com> wrote:

Hi Atin,
I have some clues about this issue.
I could reproduce this issue use the scrip that mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308487 .

I really appreciate your help in trying to nail down this issue. While I am at your email and going through the code to figure out the possible cause for it, unfortunately I don't see any script in the attachment of the bug.  Could you please cross check?

After I added some debug print,which like below, in glusterd-store.c and I found that the /var/lib/glusterd/vols/xxx/info and /var/lib/glusterd/vols/xxx/bricks/* are removed. 
But other files in /var/lib/glusterd/vols/xxx/ will not be remove.

int32_t
glusterd_store_volinfo (glusterd_volinfo_t *volinfo, glusterd_volinfo_ver_ac_t ac)
{
        int32_t                 ret = -1;

        GF_ASSERT (volinfo)

        ret = access("/var/lib/glusterd/vols/gv0/info", F_OK);
        if(ret < 0)
        {
                gf_msg (THIS->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, 0, 0, "info is not exit(%d)", errno);
        }
        else
        {
                ret = stat("/var/lib/glusterd/vols/gv0/info", &buf);
                if(ret < 0)
                {
                        gf_msg (THIS->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, 0, 0, "stat info error");
                }
                else
                {
                        gf_msg (THIS->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, 0, 0, "info size is %lu, inode num is %lu", buf.st_size, buf.st_ino);
                }
        }

        glusterd_perform_volinfo_version_action (volinfo, ac);
        ret = glusterd_store_create_volume_dir (volinfo);
        if (ret)
                goto out;

...
}

So it is easy to understand why  the info or 10.32.1.144.-opt-lvmdir-c2-brick sometimes is empty.
It is becaue the info file is not exist, and it will be create by “fd = open (path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0600);” in function gf_store_handle_new.
And the info file is empty before rename.
So the info file is empty if glusterd shutdown before rename.

My question is following.
1.I did not find the point the info is removed.Could you tell me the point where the info and /bricks/* are removed?
2.why the file info and bricks/* is removed?But other files in var/lib/glusterd/vols/xxx/ are not be removed?

AFAIK, we never delete the info file and hence this file is opened with O_APPEND flag. As I said I will go back and cross check the code once again.

Thanks,
Xin

在 2016-11-11 20:34:05，"Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> 写道：

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 4:00 PM, songxin <songxin_1980 at 126.com> wrote:

Hi Atin,

Thank you for your support.
Sincerely wait for your reply.

By the way, could you make sure that the issue, file info is empty, cause by rename is interrupted in kernel?

As per my RCA on that bug, it looked to be.

Thanks,
Xin

在 2016-11-11 15:49:02，"Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> 写道：

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:15 PM, songxin <songxin_1980 at 126.com> wrote:

Hi Atin,
Thank you for your reply.
Actually it is very difficult to reproduce because I don't know when there was an ongoing commit happening.It is just a coincidence.
But I want to make sure the root cause.

I'll give it a another try and see if this situation can be simulated/reproduced and will keep you posted.

So I would be grateful if you could answer my questions below.

You said that "This issue is hit at part of the negative testing where while gluster volume set was executed at the same point of time glusterd in another instance was brought down. In the faulty node we could see /var/lib/glusterd/vols/<volname>info file been empty whereas the info.tmp file has the correct contents." in comment.
I have two questions for you.

1.Could you reproduce this issue by gluster volume set glusterd which was brought down?
2.Could you be certain that this issue is cause by rename is interrupted in kernel?
In my case there are two files, info and 10.32.1.144.-opt-lvmdir-c2-brick, are both empty.
But in my view only one rename can be running at the same time because of the big lock.
Why there are two files are empty?

Could rename("info.tmp", "info") and rename("xxx-brick.tmp", "xxx-brick") be running in two thread?
Thanks,
Xin

在 2016-11-11 15:27:03，"Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> 写道：

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:38 PM, songxin <songxin_1980 at 126.com> wrote:

Hi Atin,
Thank you for your reply.

As you said that the info file can only be changed in the glusterd_store_volinfo() sequentially because of the big lock.

I have found the similar issue as below that you mentioned. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308487

Great, so this is what I was actually trying to refer in my first email that I saw a similar issue. Have you got a chance to look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308487#c4 ? But in your case, did you try to bring down glusterd when there was an ongoing commit happening?

You said that "This issue is hit at part of the negative testing where while gluster volume set was executed at the same point of time glusterd in another instance was brought down. In the faulty node we could see /var/lib/glusterd/vols/<volname>info file been empty whereas the info.tmp file has the correct contents." in comment.
I have two questions for you.

1.Could you reproduce this issue by gluster volume set glusterd which was brought down?
2.Could you be certain that this issue is cause by rename is interrupted in kernel?
In my case there are two files, info and 10.32.1.144.-opt-lvmdir-c2-brick, are both empty.
But in my view only one rename can be running at the same time because of the big lock.
Why there are two files are empty?

Could rename("info.tmp", "info") and rename("xxx-brick.tmp", "xxx-brick") be running in two thread?

Thanks,
Xin

在 2016-11-11 14:36:40，"Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> 写道：

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:33 AM, songxin <songxin_1980 at 126.com> wrote:

Hi Atin,

Thank you for your reply.
I have two questions for you.

1.Are the two files info and info.tmp are only to be created or changed in function glusterd_store_volinfo()? I did not find other point in which the two file are changed.

If we are talking about info file volume then yes, the mentioned function actually takes care of it.

2.I found that glusterd_store_volinfo() will be call in many point by glusterd.Is there a problem of thread synchronization?If so, one thread may open a same file info.tmp using O_TRUNC flag when another thread is writing the info,tmp.Could this case happen?

 In glusterd threads are big lock protected and I don't see a possibility (theoretically) to have two glusterd_store_volinfo () calls at a given point of time.

Thanks,
Xin

At 2016-11-10 21:41:06, "Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com> wrote:

Did you run out of disk space by any chance? AFAIK, the code is like we write new stuffs to .tmp file and rename it back to the original file. In case of a disk space issue I expect both the files to be of non zero size. But having said that I vaguely remember a similar issue (in the form of a bug or an email) landed up once but we couldn't reproduce it, so something is wrong with the atomic update here is what I guess. I'll be glad if you have a reproducer for the same and then we can dig into it further.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:32 PM, songxin <songxin_1980 at 126.com> wrote:

Hi,
When I start the glusterd some error happened.
And the log is following.

[2016-11-08 07:58:34.989365] I [MSGID: 100030] [glusterfsd.c:2318:main] 0-/usr/sbin/glusterd: Started running /usr/sbin/glusterd version 3.7.6 (args: /usr/sbin/glusterd -p /var/run/glusterd.pid --log-level INFO) 
[2016-11-08 07:58:34.998356] I [MSGID: 106478] [glusterd.c:1350:init] 0-management: Maximum allowed open file descriptors set to 65536 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.000667] I [MSGID: 106479] [glusterd.c:1399:init] 0-management: Using /system/glusterd as working directory
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.024508] I [MSGID: 106514] [glusterd-store.c:2075:glusterd_restore_op_version] 0-management: Upgrade detected. Setting op-version to minimum : 1 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.025356] E [MSGID: 106206] [glusterd-store.c:2562:glusterd_store_update_volinfo] 0-management: Failed to get next store iter 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.025401] E [MSGID: 106207] [glusterd-store.c:2844:glusterd_store_retrieve_volume] 0-management: Failed to update volinfo for c_glusterfs volume 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.025463] E [MSGID: 106201] [glusterd-store.c:3042:glusterd_store_retrieve_volumes] 0-management: Unable to restore volume: c_glusterfs 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.025544] E [MSGID: 101019] [xlator.c:428:xlator_init] 0-management: Initialization of volume 'management' failed, review your volfile again 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.025582] E [graph.c:322:glusterfs_graph_init] 0-management: initializing translator failed 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.025629] E [graph.c:661:glusterfs_graph_activate] 0-graph: init failed 
[2016-11-08 07:58:35.026109] W [glusterfsd.c:1236:cleanup_and_exit] (-->/usr/sbin/glusterd(glusterfs_volumes_init-0x1b260) [0x1000a718] -->/usr/sbin/glusterd(glusterfs_process_volfp-0x1b3b8) [0x1000a5a8] -->/usr/sbin/glusterd(cleanup_and_exit-0x1c02c) [0x100098bc] ) 0-: received signum (0), shutting down 

And then I found that the size of vols/volume_name/info is 0.It cause glusterd shutdown.
But I found that vols/volume_name_info.tmp is not 0.
And I found that there is a brick file vols/volume_name/bricks/xxxx.brick is 0, but vols/volume_name/bricks/xxxx.brick.tmp is not 0.

I read the function code glusterd_store_volinfo () in glusterd-store.c .
I know that the info.tmp will be rename to info in function glusterd_store_volume_atomic_update().

But my question is that why the info file is 0 but info.tmp is not 0.

Thanks,
Xin

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