On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote: > Can anyone answer the question below? > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Gerald Brandt" <gbr at majentis.com> > To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 12:39:02 PM > Subject: deleted files not giving space back > > Hi, > > I'm running 3.2.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. I have a USB drive that stores > rotating snapshots of our VM's, and I keep 2 days of snapshots on the drive. > > Every night a cron job runs and deletes the oldest snapshots off the > drive. After a few days, the gluster mount, and it's base drive, show 100% > full. If I go into the gluster mount, a du -sh shows the drive to be about > 50% full. > > If I unmount the gluster mount, restart glusterd, and remount the gluster > mount, everything goes back to normal. > > At first I tried to just unmount the gluster mount, and then unmount the > physical drive. I couldn't unmmount the physical drive, it was in use. An > lsof got me the attached file. Each of the .xva files are files that were > deleted. An ls didn't show them on the disk, and a du didn't count their > size. Does anyone know why the files are still actively open? > I can't say why but I bet it has nothing to do with gluster. Try to look at this issue as if there was no gluster involved. I don't know what kind of application creates .xva files but does this application really releases the files? How are you deleting them? What user/application lsof says is hiding the files? Aren't you accessing the files directly on the bricks somehow? Rodrigo Severo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120425/f9ec9377/attachment.htm>
