[Gluster-users] Questions about healing

Kevin Lemonnier
Sat, 21 May 2016 11:48:48 -0000

>    Which is the OS reaction to a locked storage?A  It's transparent or
could
>    lead to FS issue?
>    What would happen if healing starts in the middle of a write, for
example
>    when MySQL flush to disks?

In my experience the OS can't notice that, actually. The access to the disk
won't fail,
it'll just wait for the heal to finish before returning : your VM will
freez. When the heal
finishes the access will return correctly and everything will continue as if
nothing happened.
Might depend on the OS though, no idea how windows would react, but for Linux at
least
even hour long heals never caused any problem to the VM, except of course the
fact that
the VM froze and all services on it stopped responding during the heal.

We didn't have sharding at first, and the behaviour is pretty much the same,
but the heals take
forever.

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Kevin Lemonnier
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