[Gluster-users] gluster 3.7 healing errors (no data available, buf->ia_gfid is null)

[Ravishankar N]

On 09/21/2016 06:45 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a pretty basic two-node gluster 3.7 setup, with a volume replicated/mirrored to both servers.
>
> One of the servers was down for hardware maintenance, and later when it got back up, the healing process started, re-syncing files.
> In the beginning there was some 200 files that need to be synced, and now the number of files is down to 10, but it seems the last 10 files don't seem to get synced..
>
> So the problem is the healing/re-sync never ends for these files..
>
>
> # gluster volume heal gvol1 info
> Brick gnode1:/bricks/vol1/brick1
> /foo
> / - Possibly undergoing heal
>
> /foo6
> /foo8
> /foo7
> /foo9
> /foo2
> /foo5
> /foo4
> /foo3
> Status: Connected
> Number of entries: 10
>
> Brick gnode2:/bricks/vol1/brick1
> /
> Status: Connected
> Number of entries: 1
>
>
> In the brick logs for the volume I see these errors repeating:
>
> [2016-09-21 12:41:43.063209] E [MSGID: 113002] [posix.c:252:posix_lookup] 0-gvol1-posix: buf->ia_gfid is null for /bricks/vol1/brick1/foo [No data available]
> [2016-09-21 12:41:43.063266] E [MSGID: 115050] [server-rpc-fops.c:179:server_lookup_cbk] 0-gvol1-server: 1484202: LOOKUP /foo (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001/foo) ==> (No data available) [No data available]
>
>
> Any idea what might cause those errors?  (/foo is exactly the file that is being healed, but fails to heal)
> Any tricks to try?

Can you check if the 'trusted.gfid' xattr is present for those files on 
the bricks and the files also have the associated hardlink inside 
.glusterfs? You can refer to 
https://joejulian.name/blog/what-is-this-new-glusterfs-directory-in-33/ 
if you are not familiar with the .glusterfs directory.

-Ravi

>
> Software versions: CentOS 7 with gluster37 repo (running Gluster 3.7.15), and nfs-ganesha 2.3.3.
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> -- Pasi
>
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