[Gluster-users] cluster.readdir-optimize and disappearing files/dirs bug

Artem Russakovskii archon810 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 05:43:41 UTC 2018


After updating the test server to 4.0.1, I can indeed confirm that so far
the disappearing directories bug is gone.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 8:29 PM Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Can you check whether you are hitting
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1512437? Note that the fix is
> not backported to 3.13 branch, but is available on 4.0 through
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1512437.
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Artem Russakovskii <archon810 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As many of you know, gluster suffers from pretty bad performance issues
>> when there are lots of files. One way to at least attempt to improve
>> performance is setting cluster.readdir-optimize to on.
>>
>> However, based on my recent tests (using Gluster 3.13.2), as well as
>> tests of many others (like
>> http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051417.html),
>> there's a bug that frequently makes the listings of entire dirs disappear.
>> Though the data is still there, it's a very scary bug for production
>> systems which may think all data is gone.
>>
>> I know Gluster 4 was recently released, but it makes no mention
>> of cluster.readdir-optimize in the notes.
>>
>> What's the status of diagnosing this bug and fixing it? We're
>> experiencing major performance issues with gluster in production, and I'd
>> love to do everything possible to get them resolved.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Artem
>>
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