Gluster users - Jul 2013 - gluster 3.3.2 healing - repeated entries every 10 minutes

Hello,

I have a gluster volume with two bricks, one of which failed.  Replica was set
at 2, so they both had copies of all the data.  I removed the failing brick,
reducing the replica count to 1, then added a replacement brick and increased
the replica count to 2 again.

Healing appears to be taking place, but if I do "volume heal VOLNAME info
healed" I can see that a few entries appear only once in the list (small
files - presumably completed), but the larger files are repeating every 10
minutes.  I'm guessing this is the automatic self-heal adding the files to
the queue.

Is this going to be a problem?  It looks like the healing queue is going to just
keep building up, re-adding the same in-progress files again and again.  I'm
hoping that when it completes healing a file all additional references to it
will just disappear?

Iain

This seems to have slowed down now. I'm just seeing a few entries 
popping up.
- How can you tell that healing has completely finished?
- Is it possible to heal a file while it is being modified?  (E.g. a 
virtual machine image)

Iain


On 07/25/13 07:18, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a gluster volume with two bricks, one of which failed.  Replica was
set at 2, so they both had copies of all the data.  I removed the failing brick,
reducing the replica count to 1, then added a replacement brick and increased
the replica count to 2 again.
>
> Healing appears to be taking place, but if I do "volume heal VOLNAME
info healed" I can see that a few entries appear only once in the list
(small files - presumably completed), but the larger files are repeating every
10 minutes.  I'm guessing this is the automatic self-heal adding the files
to the queue.
>
> Is this going to be a problem?  It looks like the healing queue is going to
just keep building up, re-adding the same in-progress files again and again. 
I'm hoping that when it completes healing a file all additional references
to it will just disappear?
>
> Iain