[Gluster-users] Rebalancing newly added bricks

Herb Burnswell herbert.burnswell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 21:10:14 UTC 2019


Thanks for the replies.  The rebalance is running and the brick percentages
are not adjusting as expected:

# df -hP |grep data
/dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv1_data   60T   49T   11T  83%
/gluster_bricks/data1
/dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv2_data   60T   49T   11T  83%
/gluster_bricks/data2
/dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv3_data   60T  4.6T   55T   8%
/gluster_bricks/data3
/dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv4_data   60T  4.6T   55T   8%
/gluster_bricks/data4
/dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv5_data   60T  4.6T   55T   8%
/gluster_bricks/data5
/dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv6_data   60T  4.6T   55T   8%
/gluster_bricks/data6

At the current pace it looks like this will continue to run for another 5-6
days.

I appreciate the guidance..

HB

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 9:08 PM Nithya Balachandran <nbalacha at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 at 22:59, Herb Burnswell <herbert.burnswell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the reply.
>>
>> I started a rebalance with force on serverA as suggested.  Now I see
>> 'activity' on that node:
>>
>> # gluster vol rebalance tank status
>>                                     Node Rebalanced-files          size
>>     scanned      failures       skipped               status  run time in
>> h:m:s
>>                                ---------      -----------   -----------
>> -----------   -----------   -----------         ------------
>> --------------
>>                                localhost             6143         6.1GB
>>        9542             0             0          in progress        0:4:5
>>                                serverB                  0        0Bytes
>>           7             0             0          in progress        0:4:5
>> volume rebalance: tank: success
>>
>> But I am not seeing any activity on serverB.  Is this expected?  Does the
>> rebalance need to run on each node even though it says both nodes are 'in
>> progress'?
>>
>>
> It looks like this is a replicate volume. If that is the case then yes,
> you are running an old version of Gluster for which this was the default
> behaviour.
>
> Regards,
> Nithya
>
> Thanks,
>>
>> HB
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 4:18 AM Strahil <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The rebalance status show 0 Bytes.
>>>
>>> Maybe you should try with the 'gluster volume rebalance <VOLNAME> start
>>> force' ?
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Strahil Nikolov
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Managing%20Volumes/#rebalancing-volumes
>>> On Aug 30, 2019 20:04, Herb Burnswell <herbert.burnswell at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> RHEL 7.5
>>> Gluster 3.8.15
>>> 2 Nodes: serverA & serverB
>>>
>>> I am not deeply knowledgeable about Gluster and it's administration but
>>> we have a 2 node cluster that's been running for about a year and a half.
>>> All has worked fine to date.  Our main volume has consisted of two 60TB
>>> bricks on each of the cluster nodes.  As we reached capacity on the volume
>>> we needed to expand.  So, we've added four new 60TB bricks to each of the
>>> cluster nodes.  The bricks are now seen, and the total size of the volume
>>> is as expected:
>>>
>>> # gluster vol status tank
>>> Status of volume: tank
>>> Gluster process                             TCP Port  RDMA Port  Online
>>>  Pid
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Brick serverA:/gluster_bricks/data1       49162     0          Y
>>> 20318
>>> Brick serverB:/gluster_bricks/data1       49166     0          Y
>>> 3432
>>> Brick serverA:/gluster_bricks/data2       49163     0          Y
>>> 20323
>>> Brick serverB:/gluster_bricks/data2       49167     0          Y
>>> 3435
>>> Brick serverA:/gluster_bricks/data3       49164     0          Y
>>> 4625
>>> Brick serverA:/gluster_bricks/data4       49165     0          Y
>>> 4644
>>> Brick serverA:/gluster_bricks/data5       49166     0          Y
>>> 5088
>>> Brick serverA:/gluster_bricks/data6       49167     0          Y
>>> 5128
>>> Brick serverB:/gluster_bricks/data3       49168     0          Y
>>> 22314
>>> Brick serverB:/gluster_bricks/data4       49169     0          Y
>>> 22345
>>> Brick serverB:/gluster_bricks/data5       49170     0          Y
>>> 22889
>>> Brick serverB:/gluster_bricks/data6       49171     0          Y
>>> 22932
>>> Self-heal Daemon on localhost             N/A       N/A        Y
>>> 22981
>>> Self-heal Daemon on serverA.example.com   N/A       N/A        Y
>>> 6202
>>>
>>> After adding the bricks we ran a rebalance from serverA as:
>>>
>>> # gluster volume rebalance tank start
>>>
>>> The rebalance completed:
>>>
>>> # gluster volume rebalance tank status
>>>                                     Node Rebalanced-files          size
>>>       scanned      failures       skipped               status  run time in
>>> h:m:s
>>>                                ---------      -----------   -----------
>>>   -----------   -----------   -----------         ------------
>>> --------------
>>>                                localhost                0        0Bytes
>>>             0             0             0            completed        3:7:10
>>>                              serverA.example.com        0        0Bytes
>>>             0             0             0            completed        0:0:0
>>> volume rebalance: tank: success
>>>
>>> However, when I run a df, the two original bricks still show all of the
>>> consumed space (this is the same on both nodes):
>>>
>>> # df -hP
>>> Filesystem                               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/mapper/vg0-root                     5.0G  625M  4.4G  13% /
>>> devtmpfs                                  32G     0   32G   0% /dev
>>> tmpfs                                     32G     0   32G   0% /dev/shm
>>> tmpfs                                     32G   67M   32G   1% /run
>>> tmpfs                                     32G     0   32G   0%
>>> /sys/fs/cgroup
>>> /dev/mapper/vg0-usr                       20G  3.6G   17G  18% /usr
>>> /dev/md126                              1014M  228M  787M  23% /boot
>>> /dev/mapper/vg0-home                     5.0G   37M  5.0G   1% /home
>>> /dev/mapper/vg0-opt                      5.0G   37M  5.0G   1% /opt
>>> /dev/mapper/vg0-tmp                      5.0G   33M  5.0G   1% /tmp
>>> /dev/mapper/vg0-var                       20G  2.6G   18G  13% /var
>>> /dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv1_data   60T   59T  1.1T  99%
>>> /gluster_bricks/data1
>>> /dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv2_data   60T   58T  1.3T  98%
>>> /gluster_bricks/data2
>>> /dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv3_data   60T  451M   60T   1%
>>> /gluster_bricks/data3
>>> /dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv4_data   60T  451M   60T   1%
>>> /gluster_bricks/data4
>>> /dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv5_data   60T  451M   60T   1%
>>> /gluster_bricks/data5
>>> /dev/mapper/gluster_vg-gluster_lv6_data   60T  451M   60T   1%
>>> /gluster_bricks/data6
>>> localhost:/tank                          355T  116T  239T  33% /mnt/tank
>>>
>>> We were thinking that the used space would be distributed across the now
>>> 6 bricks after rebalance.  Is that not what a rebalance does?  Is this
>>> expected behavior?
>>>
>>> Can anyone provide some guidance as to what the behavior here and if
>>> there is anything that we need to do at this point?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> HB
>>>
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