Also directories got removed. I did a really bad job in that script, wrong sed and path was not truncated and replaced with the fuse mountpoint... Yes I can move to 3.3.2qa3. At the moment I have gluster installed as per the semiosis repository. What is the best way for me to move to this other version (I think that I have to build it from source?)? Thanks and best regards, Stefano On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Vijay Bellur <vbellur at redhat.com> wrote: > On 06/02/2013 11:35 AM, Stefano Sinigardi wrote: > >> Dear Vijay, >> the filesystem is ext4, on a GPT structured disk, formatted by Ubuntu >> 12.10. >> > > A combination of ext4 on certain kernels and glusterfs has had its share > of problems (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=838784<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838784>) > for readdir workloads. I am not sure if the Ubuntu 12.10 kernel is affected > by this bug as well. GlusterFS 3.3.2 has an improvement which will address > this problem seen with ext4. > > > The rebalance I did was with the command >> gluster volume rebalance data start >> but in the log it got stuck on a file that I cannot remember (was a >> small working .cpp file, saying that it was going to be moved to an much >> more occupied replica, and it repeated this message until writing a log >> that was a few GB). >> Then I stopped it and restarted with >> gluster volume rebalance data start force >> in order to get rid of this problems about files going to bricks already >> highly occupied. >> Because I was almost stuck, remembering that a rebalance solved another >> problem I had as a miracle, I retried it, but got stuck in a >> .dropbox-cache folder. That is not a very important folder, so I thought >> I could remove it. I launched a script to find all the files looking at >> all the bricks but removing them from the fuse mountpoint. I don't know >> what went wrong (the script is very simple, the problem maybe was that >> it was 4 am in the night) but the fact is that files got removed calling >> rm at the bricks mountpoints, not the fuse one. So I think that now I'm >> in a even worse situation that before. I just stopped working on it, >> asking for some time from my colleagues (at least data is still there, >> on the bricks, just sparse on all of them) in order to think well about >> how to proceed (maybe destroying it and rebuilding it, but it will be >> very time consuming as I don't have so much free space elsewere to save >> everything, also it's very difficult to save from the fuse mountpoint as >> it's not listing all the files) >> > > Were only files removed from the brick mountpoints or did directories get > removed too? Would it be possible for you to move to 3.3.2qa3 and check if > ls does list all files present in the bricks? Note that, qa3 is not yet GA > and might see a few fixes before it becomes so. > > Regards, > Vijay > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130602/497e3fa4/attachment.html>
