Re: frequent split-brain with Gluster + Samba + Win client

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/07/2014 03:18 PM, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:

Hello Pranith,

Thanks for your reply. I'm using 3.5.2.

Is it possible that Windows doesn't release the files after a write happens?

Because the self-heal often never occurs. Just this morning we discovered that when a web server read from the other node, some files that had been changed days ago still had content from before the edit.

How can I ensure that everything syncs reliably and consistently when mounting from SMB? Is Samba VFS more reliable in this respect?

It should happen automatically. Even the mount *must* serve reads from good copy. In what scenario did you observe that the reads are served from stale brick?
Could you give 'getfattr -d -m. -e hex <path-of-file-on-brick>' output from both the bricks?

Is it possible to provide self-heal-daemon logs so that we can inspect what is happening?

Pranith

Tiemen

On 7 August 2014 03:14, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hi Tiemen,
From the logs you have pasted, it doesn't seem there are any split-brains. It is just performing self-heals. What version of glusterfs are you using? Self-heals sometimes don't happen if the data operations from mount are in progress because it tries to give that more priority. Missing files should be created once the self-heal completes on the parent directory of those files.

Pranith

On 08/07/2014 01:40 AM, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:

Sorry, I seem to have messed up the subject.

I should add, I'm mounting these volumes through GlusterFS FUSE, not the Samba VFS plugin.
 
On 06-08-14 21:47, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:

Hello,

I'm running into some serious problems with Gluster + CTDB and Samba. What I have:

A two node replicated gluster cluster set up to share volumes using Samba setup according to this guide: https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/doc/Gluster_CTDB_setup.v1.pdf

When we edit or copy files into the volume via SMB (from a Windows client accessing through a samba file share) this inevitably leads to a split-brain scenario. For example:

gluster> volume heal fl-webroot info
Brick ankh.int.rdmedia.com:/export/glu/web/flash/webroot/
<gfid:0b162618-e46f-4921-92d0-c0fdb5290bf5>
<gfid:a259de7d-69fc-47bd-90e7-06a33b3e6cc8>
Number of entries: 2

Brick morpork.int.rdmedia.com:/export/glu/web/flash/webroot/
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Services/v2
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/country/be
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/bin
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Services
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/generic
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/aspnet_client/system_web
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/country
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Scripts
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/aspnet_client
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/country/fr
Number of entries: 12

gluster> volume heal fl-webroot info
Brick ankh.int.rdmedia.com:/export/glu/web/flash/webroot/
<gfid:0b162618-e46f-4921-92d0-c0fdb5290bf5>
<gfid:a259de7d-69fc-47bd-90e7-06a33b3e6cc8>
Number of entries: 2

Brick morpork.int.rdmedia.com:/export/glu/web/flash/webroot/
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Services/v2
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/country/be
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/bin
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Services
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/generic
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/aspnet_client/system_web
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/country
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Scripts
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/aspnet_client
/LandingPage_Saturn_Production/images/country/fr

Sometimes self-heal works, sometimes it doesn't:

[2014-08-06 19:32:17.986790] E [afr-self-heal-common.c:2868:afr_log_self_heal_completion_status] 0-fl-webroot-replicate-0:  entry self heal  failed,   on /LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Services/v2
[2014-08-06 19:32:18.008330] W [client-rpc-fops.c:2772:client3_3_lookup_cbk] 0-fl-webroot-client-0: remote operation failed: No such file or directory. Path: <gfid:a89d7a07-2e3d-41ee-adcc-cb2fba3d2282> (a89d7a07-2e3d-41ee-adcc-cb2fba3d2282)
[2014-08-06 19:32:18.024057] I [afr-self-heal-common.c:2868:afr_log_self_heal_completion_status] 0-fl-webroot-replicate-0:  gfid or missing entry self heal  is started, metadata self heal  is successfully completed, backgroung data self heal  is successfully completed,  data self heal from fl-webroot-client-1  to sinks  fl-webroot-client-0, with 0 bytes on fl-webroot-client-0, 168 bytes on fl-webroot-client-1,  data - Pending matrix:  [ [ 0 0 ] [ 1 0 ] ]  metadata self heal from source fl-webroot-client-1 to fl-webroot-client-0,  metadata - Pending matrix:  [ [ 0 0 ] [ 2 0 ] ], on /LandingPage_Saturn_Production/Services/v2/PartnerApiService.asmx

More seriously, some files are simply missing on one of the nodes without any error in the logs or notice when running gluster volume heal $volume info.

Of course I can provide any log file necessary.

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