I'm currently using 3.4.2 Thanks, Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Pranith Kumar Karampuri [mailto:pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 11:57 PM To: Adrian Kan; 'Lindsay Mathieson'; gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Sparse Files and Heal On 11/22/2014 09:25 PM, Adrian Kan wrote: > Thanks a lot Pranith. Could you CC me the bug as well because I am > very interested in the status. > I'm getting the same issue since the middle of this year > (http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users.old/2014-March/016322.html > ) so I hope this can be fixed. Are you using 3.4.x or 3.5.x? There will be different bugs(clones) for the two releases. Based on that I will CC Pranith > > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pranith Kumar Karampuri [mailto:pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 11:49 PM > To: Adrian Kan; 'Lindsay Mathieson'; gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Sparse Files and Heal > > > On 11/22/2014 01:17 PM, Adrian Kan wrote: >> Pranith, >> >> I'm wondering if this is a better method to take down a brick for >> maintenance purpose and reheal: >> >> 1) Detach the brick from the cluster - gluster volume remove-brick >> datastore1 replica 1 brick1:/mnt/datastore1 >> 2) Take down the brick1 >> 3) Do whatever maintenance needed to brick1 >> 4) Turn the brick1 back on >> 5) I'm pretty sure glusterfs would not allow brick1 to be re-attached >> to the cluster because there are attributes set in the volume. The >> only way is to remove everything in it. >> 6) Re-attach brick1 after emptying the directory in brick1 - gluster >> volume add-brick datastore1 replica brick1:/mnt/datastore1 >> 7) Initiate full heal > Best method is just 2), 3), 4). The only bug that is preventing that > from happening now is 'full' heal filling sparse regions of the file, > which will be fixed shortly, we even identified the fix. > > Pranith >> >> Thanks, >> Adrian >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: gluster-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lindsay >> Mathieson >> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 3:35 PM >> To: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: Sparse Files and Heal >> >> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:54:48 PM you wrote: >>> Lindsay, >>> You said, you restored it from some backup. How did you do that? >>> If you copy the VM image from back up to the location where you >>> deleted it from on the brick directly. Then the VM hypervisor still >>> doesn't write to the new file that is copied. Basically we need to >>> make the mount close old fd that was opened on the VM(now deleted on >>> one >> of the bricks). >> >> >> I stopped the the VM and the restore creates an image with a new >> name, so it should be fine. >> >> thanks, >> -- >> Lindsay >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
