For the testing purposes, I've set up a localhost-only setup with 6x16M ramdisks (formatted as ext4) mounted (with '-o user_xattr') at /tmp/ram/{0,1,2,3,4,5} and SHARD_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE lowered to 4K. Finally the volume is: Volume Name: test Type: Distributed-Replicate Volume ID: 241d6679-7cd7-48b4-bdc5-8bc1c9940ac3 Status: Started Snapshot Count: 0 Number of Bricks: 2 x 3 = 6 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/0 Brick2: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/1 Brick3: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/2 Brick4: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/3 Brick5: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/4 Brick6: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/5 Options Reconfigured: features.shard-block-size: 64KB features.shard: on storage.fips-mode-rchecksum: on transport.address-family: inet nfs.disable: on performance.client-io-threads: off Then I mount it under /mnt/test: # mount -t glusterfs [local-ip]:/test /mnt/test and create 4M file on it: # dd if=/dev/random of=/mnt/test/file0 bs=1M count=4 This creates 189 shards of 64K each, in /tmp/ram/?/.shard: /tmp/ram/0/.shard: 24 /tmp/ram/1/.shard: 24 /tmp/ram/2/.shard: 24 /tmp/ram/3/.shard: 39 /tmp/ram/4/.shard: 39 /tmp/ram/5/.shard: 39 To simulate data loss I just remove 2 arbitrary .shard directories, for example: # rm -rfv /tmp/ram/0/.shard /tmp/ram/5/.shard Finally, I do full heal: # gluster volume heal test full and successfully got all shards under /tmp/ram/{0,5}.shard back. But the things seems going weird for the following volume: Volume Name: test Type: Distributed-Disperse Volume ID: aa621c7e-1693-427a-9fd5-d7b38c27035e Status: Started Snapshot Count: 0 Number of Bricks: 2 x (2 + 1) = 6 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/0 Brick2: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/1 Brick3: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/2 Brick4: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/3 Brick5: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/4 Brick6: [local-ip]:/tmp/ram/5 Options Reconfigured: features.shard: on features.shard-block-size: 64KB storage.fips-mode-rchecksum: on transport.address-family: inet nfs.disable: on After creating 4M file as before, I've got the same 189 shards but 32K each. After deleting /tmp/ram/{0,5}/.shard and full heal, I was able to get all shards back. But, after deleting /tmp/ram/{3,4}/.shard and full heal, I've ended up with the following: /tmp/ram/0/.shard: -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.10 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.11 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.12 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.13 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.14 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.15 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.16 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.17 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.2 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.22 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.23 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.27 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.28 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.3 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.31 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.34 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.35 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.37 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.39 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.4 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.40 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.44 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.45 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.46 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.47 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.53 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.54 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.55 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.57 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.58 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.6 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.63 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.7 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.9 /tmp/ram/1/.shard: -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.10 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.11 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.12 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.13 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.14 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.15 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.16 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.17 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.2 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.22 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.23 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.27 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.28 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.3 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.31 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.34 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.35 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.37 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.39 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.4 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.40 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.44 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.45 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.46 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.47 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.53 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.54 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.55 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.57 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.58 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.6 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.63 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.7 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.9 /tmp/ram/2/.shard: -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.10 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.11 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.12 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.13 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.14 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.15 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.16 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.17 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.2 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.22 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.23 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.27 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.28 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.3 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.31 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.34 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.35 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.37 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.39 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.4 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.40 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.44 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.45 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.46 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.47 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.53 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.54 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.55 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.57 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.58 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.6 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.63 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.7 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 32768 Sep 29 12:01 951d7c52-7230-420b-b8bb-da887fffd41e.9 So, /tmp/ram/{3,4}/.shard was not recovered. Even worse, /tmp/ram/5/.shard has disappeared completely. And of course this breaks all I/O on /mnt/test/file0, for example: # dd if=/dev/random of=/mnt/test/file0 bs=1M count=4 dd: error writing '/mnt/test/file0': No such file or directory dd: closing output file '/mnt/test/file0': No such file or directory Any ideas on what's going on here? Dmitry ________ Community Meeting Calendar: Schedule - Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 14:30 IST / 09:00 UTC Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968 Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users