Hi,
i've got 6 nodes providing a storage unit with gluster 2.5 patch 800.
They are set in 2 groups of 3 nodes each.
On top of that, i've got a Xen 3.2 machine storing its virtual machines
in gluster mount point.
The thing is that i used to have only 2 nodes for group, that's 4 nodes
in total, and today I'm trying to add 1 extra node for each group.
This is the final setting on Xen's Side:
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volume espai1
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.3
option remote-subvolume espai
end-volume
volume espai2
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.4
option remote-subvolume espai
end-volume
volume espai3
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.5
option remote-subvolume espai
end-volume
volume espai4
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.6
option remote-subvolume espai
end-volume
volume espai5
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.7
option remote-subvolume espai
end-volume
volume espai6
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.8
option remote-subvolume espai
end-volume
volume namespace1
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.4
option remote-subvolume nm
end-volume
volume namespace2
type protocol/client
option transport-type tcp/client
option remote-host 10.0.0.5
option remote-subvolume nm
end-volume
volume grup1
type cluster/afr
subvolumes espai1 espai3 espai5
end-volume
volume grup2
type cluster/afr
subvolumes espai2 espai4 espai6
end-volume
volume nm
type cluster/afr
subvolumes namespace1 namespace2
end-volume
volume g01
type cluster/unify
subvolumes grup1 grup2
option scheduler rr
option namespace nm
end-volume
volume io-cache
type performance/io-cache
option cache-size 512MB
option page-size 1MB
option force-revalidate-timeout 2
subvolumes g01
end-volume
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so... i stopped all virtual machines, unmounted gluster on Xen, updated
the spec file (the one above) and ran gluster again in Xen.
I've set different gluster environments but i had never tried this, and
now i'm facing some problems.
For what i had read before this... i used to think that when adding and
extra node to a group and "remounting" on client's side, the Healing
feature would copy all the content of the other nodes already present in
the group to the "new one". That hasn't happened, even when I've tried
to force the file system, by listing the files or doing what you suggest
in you documentation:
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find /mnt/glusterfs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 head -c1 >/dev/null
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so... my first question would be... does "self-healing" work this way?
If it doesn't.... which is the best way to add a node to a group? Do i
have to run a "copy" command manually to get the new node ready?
I've also noticed that i have necessarily to umount gluster from Xen. Is
there a way to avoid stopping all the virtual machines, umounting and
mounting again? Is there a feature like "refresh config file"?
And finally... i looked into the logs to see why self-healing wasn't
working, and i found this on Xen's Side:
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2008-12-17 12:08:30 E [tcp-client.c:190:tcp_connect] espai6:
non-blocking connect() returned: 111 (Connection refused)
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and it keeps saying this when i want to access files which were created
in the "old nodes".
is this a bug? how can i work around this?
If i create new stuff, though, it replicates to the 3 nodes, no problem
with that.... the only problem is with the old files that were already
present before i added the new node.
Thanks for your help in advance, and let me know if you need any further
information.
