Hi Avati, > Is the client spec file same on both clients? Yes, the client specs are the same on both clients. > can you show the client log of client-2? with loglevel DEBUG I see the following on client-2 while reading (with dd) a file written by client-1 (timestamps removed): D [fuse-bridge.c:492:fuse_lookup] glusterfs-fuse: 2: LOOKUP /testfile-2 D [fuse-bridge.c:354:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 2: /testfile-2 => 1972 D [inode.c:559:__create_inode] fuse/inode: create inode(1972) D [inode.c:351:__active_inode] fuse/inode: activating inode(1972), lru=0/1024 D [inode.c:381:__passive_inode] fuse/inode: passivating inode(1972), lru=1/1024 D [inode.c:308:__destroy_inode] fuse/inode: destroy inode(0) [@0x80a5720] D [inode.c:351:__active_inode] fuse/inode: activating inode(1972), lru=0/1024 D [fuse-bridge.c:1470:fuse_open] glusterfs-fuse: 3: OPEN /testfile-2 E [unify.c:875:unify_open] unify: /testfile-2: entry_count is 3 E [fuse-bridge.c:670:fuse_fd_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 3: /testfile-2 => -1 (5) D [inode.c:381:__passive_inode] fuse/inode: passivating inode(1972), lru=1/1024 when I only do an ls /glusterfs/filename I see the following on client-2: D [inode.c:351:__active_inode] fuse/inode: activating inode(1972), lru=0/1024 D [fuse-bridge.c:500:fuse_lookup] glusterfs-fuse: 4: LOOKUP /testfile-2(1972) E [fuse-bridge.c:431:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 4: /testfile-2 => -1 (116) D [fuse-bridge.c:437:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: unlinking stale dentry for `/testfile-2' D [fuse-bridge.c:354:fuse_entry_cbk] glusterfs-fuse: 4: /testfile-2 => 1972 D [inode.c:308:__destroy_inode] fuse/inode: destroy inode(0) [@0xb6b05248] D [inode.c:381:__passive_inode] fuse/inode: passivating inode(1972), lru=1/1024 > also which version of glusterfs/fuse are you using? - debian etch - kernel 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem - glusterfs tla 643 (debian packages from http://projects.nlogy.cz/debian) - fuse-2.7.2glfs8 from http://ftp.zresearch.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/fuse/fuse-2.7.2glfs8.tar.gz David > 2008/1/29, David Mayr - Hetzner Online AG <david.mayr@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi Avati, > > > > > > Hi GlusterFS-Team, > > > > > > > > first thank you for this great piece of software! > > > > > > > > I try glusterfs for testing at the moment on 9 servers and two > > > > clients with > > > > unify - for config see > > > > http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m7a74bd29(client) and > > > > http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m206785bc (server). > > > > > > > > I'm using TLA 643 of the packages from > > > > http://projects.nlogy.cz/debian (camel1cz builds them nightly), but > > > > saw the following problem already last week with earlier patch > > > > versions. > > > > > > > > When I write files with client-1, I can stat and read these files > > > > from client-1 without problems. But I get wrong results doing an "ls > > > > -l" > > > > (zero > > > > > > bytes) on client-2 and cannot read the file on client-2. > > > > > > > > See the following example: > > > > > > > > > > > > ===> on client-1: > > > > > > > > root@client-1 ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/glusterfs/testfile bs=1M > > > > count=100 > > > > > > 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 1.9773 seconds, 53.0 MB/s > > > > > > > > root@client-1 ~ # ls -lah /glusterfs/testfile > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100M 2008-01-28 12:48 /glusterfs/testfile > > > > > > > > root@client-1 ~ # dd if=/glusterfs/testfile of=/dev/null > > > > 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.55219 seconds, 41.1 MB/s > > > > > > > > > > > > ===> on client-2: > > > > > > > > root@client-2 ~ # ls -lah /glusterfs/testfile > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-01-28 12:47 /glusterfs/testfile > > > > (=> zero byte size) > > > > > > > > root@client-2 ~ # dd if=/glusterfs/testfile of=/dev/null > > > > dd: opening `/glusterfs/testfile': Input/output error > > > > > > > > David > > > > > > In your client spec I do not see 'ns9' being declared as a > > > > protocol/client. > > > > > Please declare the global namespace as it is necssary for shared > > > access. avati > > > > Oops, I'm sorry - forgot that while cleaning up (removing comments and > > unnecessary) my config files. > > In my original files the ns9-entry exists. > > > > I re-posted my config files here: > > server: http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m96b2583 > > client: http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m6c8472aa > > > > Any ideas why clients cannot read files of other clients? > > > > -- > > David