> > > I discovered that if you remove a pair of bricks and then immediately add a > new pair of bricks on another server, the fix-layout operation then > continues indefinitely. I didn't mention before that I'd done that because > I didn't want to muddy the waters with extra detail. However it turns out > that doing a remove-brick followed by add-brick does affect fix-layout. > This isn't something that many users will want to do, but I thought you > might want to investigate in case the problem crops up again. > > Sure. Added it in our test cases. Thanks for reporting. > I let the fix-layout carry on until it had fixed ten times as many layouts > as there were paths in the volume before stopping it. I ran a test where I > created a test file in every existing directory, checking for file write > errors and error messages in the log files, and then began using the volume > normally without any apparent problems. Therefore the layout fix does seem > to have worked even though the fix-layout operation didn't stop. > > > Will check why that would happen (ie, fix-layout didn't stop, but most of your directories are working fine. Regards, Amar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110906/ac17b12a/attachment.htm>
