I am sorry; I really didn't intend for this to be insulting. First of all, to the hard-working people who make this tool available, I want to apologize if my remarks came across as insulting or anything like that. I want it to be clear that this was not my intention. Perhaps my choice of words should have been chosen more wisely so that I gave a better indication of what I want to find out. My goal of the comments was to get information if I am at a dead-end for my task. I feel that I am there. I was hoping to get feedback if others have used something else successfully. I was hoping that someone would reply to me that I am incorrect about what I am experiencing and tell me that I must have forgotten to do something or check something out. Thank you for letting me know right away and sending me feedback. -Jon On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Joe Julian <joe at julianfamily.org> wrote: > Please don't insult the people that work hard to give you a free tool, nor > those who spend their own limited time to offer you free support. > > If you need to try a different tool, but just do. We don't need to hear > about it. > > If you have found a bug or have encountered a problem, ask for help if you > want help. File a bug report if you want it fixed. All insults do is create > frustration. > > Jonathan Lefman <jonathan.lefman at essess.com> wrote: >> >> My gluster volume is more-or-less useless from an administration point of >> view. I am unable to stop the volume because it claims it is rebalancing >> or gluster says the command failed. When I try to stop, start, or get the >> status of rebalancing, I get nothing returned. I have stopped and >> restarted all glusterfsd processes on each host. Nothing seems to bring >> sanity back to the volume. >> >> This is bad news for gluster's reliability. I am unable to find a source >> of the problem. Regular methods for resetting the system to usable state >> are not working. I think it is time to call it quits and find another >> solution. Ceph? >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Lefman < >> jonathan.lefman at essess.com> wrote: >> >>> At the same time, when looking at the rebalance log, it appears that the >>> rebalance is still going on in the background because I am seeing entries >>> related to rebalancing. However, the detail status command shows that the >>> distribution for files is still stable on the older nodes. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Jonathan Lefman < >>> jonathan.lefman at essess.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Volume type: >>>> >>>> non-replicated, 29 nodes, xfs formats >>>> >>>> Number of files/directories: >>>> >>>> There are about 5000-10000 directories >>>> >>>> Average size of files: >>>> >>>> There are two distributions of files: a vast majority of files is >>>> around 200-300 kilobytes, with about 1000-fold fewer files with a size >>>> around 1 gigabyte >>>> >>>> Average number of files per directory: >>>> >>>> Around 1800 files per directory >>>> >>>> glusterd log below: >>>> >>>> When trying >>>> >>>> sudo gluster volume rebalance essess_data status >>>> >>>> OR >>>> >>>> sudo gluster volume status myvol >>>> operation failed >>>> >>>> Log for this time from >>>> /var/log/glusterfs/etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log: >>>> >>>> [2012-11-23 13:05:00.489567] E >>>> [glusterd-handler.c:458:glusterd_op_txn_begin] 0-management: Unable to >>>> acquire local lock, ret: -1 >>>> [2012-11-23 13:07:09.102007] I >>>> [glusterd-handler.c:2670:glusterd_handle_status_volume] 0-management: >>>> Received status volume req for volume essess_data >>>> [2012-11-23 13:07:09.102056] E [glusterd-utils.c:277:glusterd_lock] >>>> 0-glusterd: Unable to get lock for uuid: >>>> ee33fd05-135e-40e7-a157-3c1e0b9be073, lock held by: >>>> ee33fd05-135e-40e7-a157-3c1e0b9be073 >>>> [2012-11-23 13:07:09.102073] E >>>> [glusterd-handler.c:458:glusterd_op_txn_begin] 0-management: Unable to >>>> acquire local lock, ret: -1 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 11/23/2012 11:14 PM, Jonathan Lefman wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The rebalance command has run for quite a while. Now when I issue the >>>>>> rebalance status command, >>>>>> >>>>>> sudo gluster volume rebalance myvol status >>>>>> >>>>>> I get nothing back; just a return to the command prompt. Any ideas of >>>>>> what is going on? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> A few questions: >>>>> >>>>> - What is your volume type? >>>>> - How many files and directories do you have in your volume? >>>>> - What is the average size of files? >>>>> - What is the average number of files per directory? >>>>> - Can you please share glusterd logs from the time when the command >>>>> returns without displaying any output? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Vijay >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> >> >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20121124/f4186ab0/attachment.html>