Re: libgfapi failover problem on replica bricks

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Hi,

Could you send output of gluster volume info and also exact command you are using to start VM's and what cache settings you are using with KVM?

-samuli
 
Paul Penev <ppquant@xxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti 21.4.2014 kello 10.47:

> Ok, here is one more hint that point in the direction of libgfapi not
> re-establishing the connections to the bricks after they come back
> online: if I migrate the KVM machine (live) from one node to another
> after the bricks are back online, and I kill the second brick, the KVM
> will not suffer from disk problems. It is obvious that during
> migration, the new process on the new node is forced to reconnect to
> the gluster volume, hence reestablishing both links. After this it is
> ready to loose one of the links without problems.
> 
> Steps to replicate:
> 
> 1. Start KVM VM and boot from a replicated volume
> 2. killall -KILL glusterfsd on one brick (brick1). Verify the the kvm
> is still working.
> 3. Bring back the glusterfsd on brick1.
> 4. heal the volume (gluster vol heal <vol>) and wait until gluster vol
> heal <vol> info shows no self-heal backlog.
> 5. Now migrate the KVM from one node to another node.
> 6. killall -KILL glusterfsd on the second brick (brick2).
> 7. Verify that KVM is still working (!) It would die from disk errors
> before, if step 5 was not executed.
> 8. Bring back glusterfsd on brick2, heal and enjoy.
> 9. repeat at will: The KVM will never die again, provided you migrate
> is once before brick failure.
> 
> What this means to me: there's a problem in libgfapi, gluster 3.4.2
> and 3.4.3 (at least) and/or kvm 1.7.1 (I'm running the latest 1.7
> source tree in production).
> 
> Joe: we're in your hands. I hope you find the problem somewhere.
> 
> Paul.
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