Gluster users - Nov 2015 - File Corruption with shards - 100% reproducable

Gluster 3.7.5, gluster repos, on proxmox (debian 8)

I have an issue with VM images (qcow2) being corrupted.

- gluster replica 3, shards on, shard size = 256MB
- Gluster nodes are all also VM host nodes
- VM image mounted from qemu via gfapi

To reproduce
- Start VM
- live migrate it to another node
- VM will rapidly become unresponsive and have to be stopped
- attempting to restart the vm results in a "qcow2: Image is corrupt;
cannot be opened read/write" error.

I have never seen this before. 100% reproducible with shards on, never
happens with shards off.

I don't think this happens when using NFS to access the shard volume, I
suspect because with NFS it is still accessing the one node, whereas with
gfapi it's handed off to the node the VM is running on.



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Lindsay
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Hi, 

Although I do not have experience with VM live migration, IIUC, it is got to do
with a different server (and as a result a new glusterfs client process) taking
over the operations and mgmt of the VM.
If this is a correct assumption, then I think this could be the result of the
same caching bug that I talked about sometime back in 3.7.5, which is fixed in
3.7.6.
The issue could cause the new client to not see the correct size and block count
of the file, leading to errors in reads (perhaps triggered by the restart of the
vm) and writes on the image.

-Krutika 
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lindsay Mathieson" <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>
> To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 3:53:25 AM
> Subject: [Gluster-users] File Corruption with shards - 100% reproducable
> Gluster 3.7.5, gluster repos, on proxmox (debian 8)
> I have an issue with VM images (qcow2) being corrupted.
> - gluster replica 3, shards on, shard size = 256MB
> - Gluster nodes are all also VM host nodes
> - VM image mounted from qemu via gfapi
> To reproduce
> - Start VM
> - live migrate it to another node
> - VM will rapidly become unresponsive and have to be stopped
> - attempting to restart the vm results in a "qcow2: Image is corrupt;
cannot
> be opened read/write" error.
> I have never seen this before. 100% reproducible with shards on, never
> happens with shards off.
> I don't think this happens when using NFS to access the shard volume, I
> suspect because with NFS it is still accessing the one node, whereas with
> gfapi it's handed off to the node the VM is running on.
> --
> Lindsay
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