I'm currently using 3.4.2
Thanks,
Adrian
-----Original Message-----
From: Pranith Kumar Karampuri [mailto:pkarampu at redhat.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 11:57 PM
To: Adrian Kan; 'Lindsay Mathieson'; gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] 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 at redhat.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 11:49 PM
> To: Adrian Kan; 'Lindsay Mathieson'; gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] 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 at gluster.org
>> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Lindsay
>> Mathieson
>> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 3:35 PM
>> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
>> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] 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
>>
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