Hi Brian, > This sounds extremely unlikely. mdadm and LVM both work at the block device > layer - reading and writing 512-byte blocks. They have no understanding of > filesystems and no understanding of user IDs. > Agreed. > I suspect there were other differences between the tests. For example, did > you do one with an ext4 filesystem and one with xfs? Or did you have a > failed drive in your RAID1, which meant that some writes were timing out? > Both environments were xfs. The only difference is that the original environment was not using LVM or mdadm -- similar to what I ended up doing on the second environment in the end. I do plan on testing this out in more detail soon as I'd like to narrow the issue down further. > FWIW, I've also seen the "files owned by root" occasionally in testing, but > wasn't able to pin down the cause. > Good to know - if anything to say I'm not going crazy :) Thanks, Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120826/f26e32e4/attachment.htm>
