[Gluster-users] Self Heal Confusion

[Brett Holcomb]

I'm gidding through them now but haven't seen anything.  The shd log 
shows nothing.


On 12/21/18 11:26 AM, John Strunk wrote:
> I think the next step is to look through the logs...
> - brick logs
> - glusterd logs
> - self-heal logs
>
> Also the output from gluster vol heal info may be helpful (for the vol 
> w/ 85 pending).
>
> -John
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:36 AM Brett Holcomb <biholcomb at l1049h.com 
> <mailto:biholcomb at l1049h.com>> wrote:
>
>     No changes.  Still stuck on the same numbers after many hours.
>
>
>     On 12/20/18 8:26 PM, John Strunk wrote:
>>     Assuming your bricks are up... yes, the heal count should be
>>     decreasing.
>>
>>     There is/was a bug wherein self-heal would stop healing but would
>>     still be running. I don't know whether your version is affected,
>>     but the remedy is to just restart the self-heal daemon.
>>     Force start one of the volumes that has heals pending. The bricks
>>     are already running, but it will cause shd to restart and,
>>     assuming this is the problem, healing should begin...
>>
>>     $ gluster vol start my-pending-heal-vol force
>>
>>     Others could better comment on the status of the bug.
>>
>>     -John
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 5:45 PM Brett Holcomb
>>     <biholcomb at l1049h.com <mailto:biholcomb at l1049h.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I have one volume that has 85 pending entries in healing and
>>         two more
>>         volumes with 58,854 entries in healing pending.  These
>>         numbers are from
>>         the volume heal info summary command.  They have stayed
>>         constant for two
>>         days now.  I've read the gluster docs and many more. The
>>         Gluster docs
>>         just give some commands and non gluster docs basically repeat
>>         that.
>>         Given that it appears no self-healing is going on for my
>>         volume I am
>>         confused as to why.
>>
>>         1.  If a self-heal deamon is listed on a host (all of mine
>>         show one with
>>         a volume status command) can I assume it's enabled and running?
>>
>>         2.  I assume the volume that has all the self-heals pending
>>         has some
>>         serious issues even though I can access the files and
>>         directories on
>>         it.  If self-heal is running shouldn't the numbers be decreasing?
>>
>>         It appears to me self-heal is not working properly so how to
>>         I get it to
>>         start working or should I delete the volume and start over?
>>
>>         I'm running gluster 5.2 on Centos 7 latest and updated.
>>
>>         Thank you.
>>
>>
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