Adrian Revill wrote: > Hi > I have read through the docs and google and I think i am trying to do > this right, but just wanted to be sure i have it correctly configured. > > I have 2 servers factory1 and factory2, both clean installs of RHEL5.4 > on basic hardware. > I followed the instructions from > http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_User_Guide, > and have installed 3.0.0-1 > > On factory1 I ran the command > /usr/bin/glusterfs-volgen --name dataexp --raid 1 > factory1:/data/export factory2:/data/export > > I copied factory1-dataexp-export.vol to /etc/glusterfsd.vol on factory1 > factory2-dataexp-export.vol to /etc/glusterfsd.vol on factory2 > > and coppied dataexp-tcp.vol to /etc/glusterfs.vol on both factory1 and > factory2 > > Then on both servers I started the server with the init script and ran > mount -t glusterfs /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs.vol /mnt/export > > Every thing works fine, i can copy files into either servers > /mnt/export directory and they appear on the other server. > > I then tried a failure scenario. With both servers and clients up i > deleted all the files from /mnt/export, so far so good. > > I then shut down the server on factory1, leaving the client up and > copied three large files (715MB each) into /mnt/export on factory2 > Both factory1 and factroy2 both show the files with the correct size > and md5sum. > > I then started the server on factory1. > This is where it goes wrong, as soon as factory1 starts, both clients > show the file sizes of the files as 0, checking the backing store > /data/export i see the files are also 0 size there too. The md5Sum is > now wrong. > > It seems that the replication has created the files on factory2, but > before copying the contents, it has decided that the empty files on > factory1 are newer than factory2 and decided to copy the zero size > files back to factory1. > > Any one got any ideas? > Adrian, If this is reproducible easily, can you run the clients with log level TRACE and send us the logs (or perhaps log a bug and attach it there if they are big)? Vikas
