[Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.3 beta on Debian

2012-05-02 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, I'm attempting to install the 3.3 beta3 on Debian. The files are located in a directory that looks like they were built for Debian Lenny, here: http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/qa-releases/3.3.0beta3/Debian/5.0.3/ Note the 5.0.3 at the end of the path.. However, when

Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.3 beta on Debian

2012-05-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 03/05/12 17:55, Sachidananda Urs wrote: Hi, On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Toby Corkindale toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au mailto:toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au wrote: The files are located in a directory that looks like they were built for Debian Lenny, here: http

Re: [Gluster-users] [3.3 beta3] When should the self-heal daemon be triggered?

2012-05-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
that sync start happening immediately, or after a certain time period, or only after we manually run the 'volume heal' command? ta, Toby On 03/05/12 19:45, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, I eventually installed three Debian unstable machines, so I could install the GlusterFS 3.3 beta3. I have

[Gluster-users] How to set backup volume server in mount options

2012-05-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, I saw in the 3.3 changelog that now it is possible to set a secondary server to retrieve the volume information from, when mounting a volume via the native client. However... I can't find any documentation in the man pages explaining how to do this. Currently I have: mount -t

Re: [Gluster-users] How to set backup volume server in mount options

2012-05-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 04/05/12 11:35, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, I saw in the 3.3 changelog that now it is possible to set a secondary server to retrieve the volume information from, when mounting a volume via the native client. However... I can't find any documentation in the man pages explaining how to do

Re: [Gluster-users] How to set backup volume server in mount options

2012-05-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 04/05/12 17:53, Amar Tumballi wrote: 0-/usr/sbin/glusterfs: Started running /usr/sbin/glusterfs version 3.3.0qa39 [2012-05-04 17:21:47.918568] E [fuse-bridge.c::init] 0-fuse: Mountpoint gluster seems to have a stale mount, run 'umount gluster' and try again. Hi Toby, Thanks for the

Re: [Gluster-users] How to set backup volume server in mount options

2012-05-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 07/05/12 15:25, Amar Tumballi wrote: On 05/07/2012 06:20 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: On 04/05/12 17:53, Amar Tumballi wrote: 0-/usr/sbin/glusterfs: Started running /usr/sbin/glusterfs version 3.3.0qa39 [2012-05-04 17:21:47.918568] E [fuse-bridge.c::init] 0-fuse: Mountpoint gluster seems

[Gluster-users] Is glusterd required on clients?

2012-05-21 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, Just wanted to confirm something.. On Linux clients, using the FUSE method of mounting volumes, do you need glusterd to be running? I don't *think* so, but want to check. Thanks, Toby ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org

Re: [Gluster-users] Is glusterd required on clients?

2012-05-22 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 22/05/12 16:59, Amar Tumballi wrote: On 05/22/2012 10:54 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, Just wanted to confirm something.. On Linux clients, using the FUSE method of mounting volumes, do you need glusterd to be running? I don't *think* so, but want to check. 'glusterd' is *not* required

[Gluster-users] Gluster on Debian (was: A very special announcement from Gluster.org)

2012-06-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, This method of installing libssl1.0.0 is really not going to be acceptable to most system administrators. A version of Gluster that's been built properly for Debian Squeeze (and also separately for Ubuntu Precise) would be much appreciated. If you already have a build on Lenny (3.2) and

[Gluster-users] Documentation on recovering from split-brain situation

2012-06-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, I'm trying to find official documentation that describes the procedure for recovering from a split-brain situation with replicated volumes. I can find various posts on the mailing list that refer to the version 2.x series, but nothing good for 3.x. Can anyone point me in the right

Re: [Gluster-users] 3.3 rdma in .deb package

2012-06-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 07/06/12 01:10, Sachidananda URS wrote: Hi Filipe, I have built the RDMA packages and can be found in: http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/5.0.3/ Why is the .deb in a Debian 5.0.3 directory, when it can't be installed on anything earlier than version 7?

Re: [Gluster-users] Documentation on recovering from split-brain situation

2012-06-11 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 07/06/12 14:34, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find official documentation that describes the procedure for recovering from a split-brain situation with replicated volumes. I can find various posts on the mailing list that refer to the version 2.x series, but nothing good for 3.x

Re: [Gluster-users] managing split brain in 3.3

2012-06-25 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 25/06/12 21:04, samuel wrote: Is there any guide or procedure to handle split brains on 3.3? I've asked the list several times for this information and been ignored. I'm sure people are just busy with higher priority issues.. but it'd be nice to see this failure case documented. -Toby

[Gluster-users] Packages for Debian Squeeze 3.3.1

2012-11-04 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, Has there been any progress on building 3.3.1 .deb packages for Debian Squeeze yet? If no-one else has come forward, I can get one knocked up for. I build packages pretty regularly. I consider myself reasonably competent rather than expert at it, though. If you're interested, can you

[Gluster-users] Errors in documentation for 3.2 to 3.3 upgrade path

2013-01-23 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, Last night I attempted to upgrade some GlusterFS servers from 3.2.x to 3.3.1. The upgrade did NOT go smoothly, and I'm quite disappointed in the documentation for the upgrade as it was quite erroneous. I followed this guide: http://www.gluster.org/2012/05/upgrading-to-glusterfs-3-3-0/

Re: [Gluster-users] Errors in documentation for 3.2 to 3.3 upgrade path

2013-01-23 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 24/01/13 10:57, Joe Julian wrote: On 01/23/2013 03:43 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, Last night I attempted to upgrade some GlusterFS servers from 3.2.x to 3.3.1. The upgrade did NOT go smoothly, and I'm quite disappointed in the documentation for the upgrade as it was quite erroneous. I

[Gluster-users] Server and Client lk-version numbers are not same

2013-01-23 Thread Toby Corkindale
I'm seeing these messages in logfiles a lot now, since upgrading to 3.3.1. What do they mean and how do I fix it? (I am running the same version of Gluster on clients and servers, of course) Server and Client lk-version numbers are not same, reopening the fds Server lk version = 1

Re: [Gluster-users] Server and Client lk-version numbers are not same

2013-01-23 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 24/01/13 15:41, Toby Corkindale wrote: I'm seeing these messages in logfiles a lot now, since upgrading to 3.3.1. What do they mean and how do I fix it? (I am running the same version of Gluster on clients and servers, of course) Server and Client lk-version numbers are not same, reopening

Re: [Gluster-users] Server and Client lk-version numbers are not same

2013-01-23 Thread Toby Corkindale
and normal. OK, thanks. It seems concerning as it happens quite frequently now; you'd assume that they should have stayed in sync once the fd was reopened. You only, really, need to be concerned with E (error) and C (critical). Toby Corkindale toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au wrote: On 24

[Gluster-users] Bug in log rotation for 3.3.1

2013-02-20 Thread Toby Corkindale
logrotate.d/glusterfs-common (in the debian package for 3.3.1) is faulty. It rotates the log files, but it doesn't tell glusterd to re-open them, so it continues to write to what is now .1 (and then later it gets gziped and corrupted) I also note that the debian packages do not include the

Re: [Gluster-users] Bug in log rotation for 3.3.1

2013-02-21 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 22/02/13 11:18, Joe Julian wrote: On 02/20/2013 05:05 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: logrotate.d/glusterfs-common (in the debian package for 3.3.1) is faulty. It rotates the log files, but it doesn't tell glusterd to re-open them, so it continues to write to what is now .1 (and then later

Re: [Gluster-users] Bug in log rotation for 3.3.1

2013-02-21 Thread Toby Corkindale
/3.3.1/Debian/squeeze.repo/pool/main/g/glusterfs/ The source for those packages is here: https://github.com/semiosis/glusterfs-debian On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Toby Corkindale toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au wrote: logrotate.d/glusterfs-common (in the debian package for 3.3.1

Re: [Gluster-users] Bug in log rotation for 3.3.1

2013-02-24 Thread Toby Corkindale
. Toby Corkindale toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au wrote: On 22/02/13 11:18, Joe Julian wrote: On 02/20/2013 05:05 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: logrotate.d/glusterfs-common (in the debian package for 3.3.1) is faulty. It rotates the log files

Re: [Gluster-users] Bug in log rotation for 3.3.1

2013-02-25 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 25/02/13 20:50, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: On 02/24/13 20:41, Toby Corkindale wrote: In the meantime, could someone advise me on the correct way to tell Glusterfs to rotate the logs for the bricks and mounts? Have you tried: # gluster volume log rotate VOLNAME [BRICK] Is there a way

Re: [Gluster-users] Disappointing documentation?

2013-03-05 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 06/03/13 03:33, Joe Julian wrote: It comes up on this list from time to time that there's not sufficient documentation on troubleshooting. I assume that's what some people mean when they refer to disappointing documentation as the current documentation is far more detailed and useful than it

Re: [Gluster-users] Debian Squeeze packages available for Gluster 3.4.0-alpha2

2013-03-11 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi Torbjorn, I notice that your package still contain the totally-broken logrotate scripts that Semiosis used in his packaging. You may remember (since you were involved in it) the discussion around this fairly recently. It'd be great if you could update the debian packaging to include the

[Gluster-users] segfault in glustershd

2013-04-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
We experienced the gluster self-heal daemon crashing on us after a reboot of the server.. Logs are below. Is this a known issue: [2013-04-03 20:54:06.500173] E [dict.c:2424:dict_unserialize] (--/lib/libc.so.6(+0x41600) [0x7f6fff533600] (--/usr/lib/libglusterfs.so.0(synctask_wrap+0x12)

Re: [Gluster-users] Self-heal and high load

2013-05-13 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 11/05/13 00:40, Matthew Day wrote: Hi all, I'm pretty new to Gluster, and the company I work for uses it for storage across 2 data centres. An issue has cropped up fairly recently with regards to the self-heal mechanism. Occasionally the connection between these 2 Gluster servers breaks or

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster Self Heal

2013-07-09 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 09/07/13 15:38, Bobby Jacob wrote: Hi, I have a 2-node gluster with 3 TB storage. 1)I believe the “glusterfsd” is responsible for the self healing between the 2 nodes. 2)Due to some network error, the replication stopped for some reason but the application was accessing the data from

Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster Self Heal

2013-07-10 Thread Toby Corkindale
of volumes defined, I think? Toby 2013/7/9 Toby Corkindale toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au mailto:toby.corkind...@strategicdata.com.au On 09/07/13 15:38, Bobby Jacob wrote: Hi, I have a 2-node gluster with 3 TB storage. 1)I believe the “glusterfsd” is responsible

Re: [Gluster-users] A question about healing

2013-07-15 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 12/07/13 06:44, Michael Peek wrote: Hi gurus, So I have a cluster that I've set up and I'm banging on. It's comprised of four machines with two drives in each machine. (By the way, the 3.2.5 version that comes with stock Ubuntu 12.04 seems to have a lot of bugs/instability. I was screwing

[Gluster-users] Debian Squeeze support?

2013-07-23 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, I saw that there are Debian 7 (Wheezy) packages for Gluster 3.3 and 3.4 available currently. Are there any plans to provide Debian 6 (Squeeze) packages? cheers, Toby ___ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@gluster.org

[Gluster-users] peer status rejected (connected)

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, What does it mean when you use peer probe to add a new host, but then afterwards the peer status is reported as Rejected yet Connected? And of course -- how does one fix this? gluster peer status Number of Peers: 1 Hostname: 192.168.10.32 Uuid: 32497846-6e02-4b68-b147-6f4b936b3373 State:

[Gluster-users] Incorrect brick errors

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, I'm getting some confusing Incorrect brick errors when attempting to remove OR replace a brick. gluster volume info condor Volume Name: condor Type: Replicate Volume ID: 9fef3f76-525f-4bfe-9755-151e0d8279fd Status: Started Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1:

Re: [Gluster-users] peer status rejected (connected)

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 06/08/13 18:12, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, What does it mean when you use peer probe to add a new host, but then afterwards the peer status is reported as Rejected yet Connected? And of course -- how does one fix this? gluster peer status Number of Peers: 1 Hostname: 192.168.10.32 Uuid

Re: [Gluster-users] peer status rejected (connected)

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 06/08/13 21:25, Kaushal M wrote: Toby, What versions of gluster are on the peers? And does the cluster have just two peers or more? Version 3.3.1. The cluster has/had two nodes; we're trying to replace one with another one. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Toby Corkindale toby.corkind

Re: [Gluster-users] peer status rejected (connected)

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
why this was required. We still can't remove, replace or add bricks but I'll continue that in another thread.. -T On 07/08/13 10:51, Toby Corkindale wrote: On 06/08/13 21:25, Kaushal M wrote: Toby, What versions of gluster are on the peers? And does the cluster have just two peers or more

Re: [Gluster-users] Incorrect brick errors

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 06/08/13 18:24, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, I'm getting some confusing Incorrect brick errors when attempting to remove OR replace a brick. gluster volume info condor Volume Name: condor Type: Replicate Volume ID: 9fef3f76-525f-4bfe-9755-151e0d8279fd Status: Started Number of Bricks: 1 x 2

[Gluster-users] Cannot recycle previously-used volume names

2013-08-06 Thread Toby Corkindale
Is this a bug or a feature? # gluster volume create foo mel-storage01:/tmp/foo Creation of volume foo has been successful. Please start the volume to access data. # gluster volume delete foo Deleting volume foo has been successful # gluster volume create foo mel-storage01:/tmp/foo /tmp/foo

Re: [Gluster-users] Incorrect brick errors

2013-08-07 Thread Toby Corkindale
, and if anything version 3.3 has been worse than 3.2 for bugs. (And I have no faith at all that 3.4 is an improvement) -Toby On 07/08/13 11:44, Toby Corkindale wrote: On 06/08/13 18:24, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, I'm getting some confusing Incorrect brick errors when attempting to remove

Re: [Gluster-users] Incorrect brick errors

2013-08-07 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 08/08/13 13:09, Krishnan Parthasarathi wrote: Hi Toby, - Original Message - Hi, I'm getting some confusing Incorrect brick errors when attempting to remove OR replace a brick. gluster volume info condor Volume Name: condor Type: Replicate Volume ID:

[Gluster-users] Bug - replace-brick commit fails after half a dozen calls / status reports failure, then success

2013-08-08 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, Having built a fresh Gluster cluster, this time out of Ubuntu LTS with Gluster 3.3.2, we've found that the replace-brick command now seems to succeed. (Unlike our Debian 6 + 3.3.1 cluster before it) I say seems to succeed, because it fails after about half a dozen volumes have been

Re: [Gluster-users] Can't access volume during self-healing

2013-10-10 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 10/10/13 05:22, Pruner, Anne (Anne) wrote: I’m evaluating gluster for use in our product, and I want to ensure that I understand the failover behavior. What I’m seeing isn’t great, but it doesn’t look from the docs I’ve read that this is what everyone else is experiencing. Is this normal?