Hi Harry,

That is correct, the files wont be seen on the client.
Can you provide an output of these:
1. df of all exports
2. Provide remove-brick/rebalance (<volname>-rebalance.log) log (if large just 
the failure messages, and tail of the the file).

With regards,
Shishir

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Mangalam" <[email protected]>
To: "Shishir Gowda" <[email protected]>
Cc: "gluster-users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:00:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] files on gluster brick that have '---------T' 
designation.

Hi Shishir, 


Thanks for your attention. 



Hmm - your explanation makes some sense, but those 'T' files don't show up in 
the client view of the dir - only in the brick view. Is that valid? 


I'm using 3.3 on 4 ubuntu 12.04 servers over DDR IPoIB, and the command to 
initiate the remove brick was: 


$ gluster volume remove-brick gli pbs3ib:/bducgl start 


and the current status is: 



$ gluster volume remove-brick gli pbs3ib:/bducgl status 
Node Rebalanced-files size scanned failures status 
--------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ 
localhost 0 0 137702 21406 stopped 
pbs2ib 0 0 168991 6921 stopped 
pbs3ib 724683 594890945282 4402804 0 in progress 
pbs4ib 0 0 169081 7923 stopped 


(the failures were the same as were seen as when I tried the rebalance command 
previously). 


Best 
harry 


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Shishir Gowda < [email protected] > wrote: 


Hi Harry, 

These are valid files in glusterfs-dht xlator configured volumes. These are 
known as link files, which dht uses to maintain files on the hashed subvol, 
when the actual data resides in non hashed subvolumes(rename can lead to 
these). The cleanup of these files will be taken care of by running rebalance. 
Can you please provide the gluster version you are using, and the remove brick 
command you used? 

With regards, 
Shishir 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Mangalam" < [email protected] > 
To: "gluster-users" < [email protected] > 
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:01:05 AM 
Subject: [Gluster-users] files on gluster brick that have '---------T' 
designation. 


I have a working but unbalanced gluster config where one brick has about 2X the 
usage of the 3 others. I started a remove-brick to force a resolution of this 
problem (Thanks to JD for the help!), but it's going very slowly, about 2.2MB/s 
over DDR IPoIB or ~2.3 files/s. In investigating the problem, I may have found 
a partial explanation - I have found 100s of thousands (maybe millions) of 
zero-length files existing on the problem brick that do not exist on the client 
view that have the designation ' ---------T' via 'ls -l' 


ie: 



/bducgl/alamng/Research/Yuki/newF20/runF20_2513/data: 
total 0 
---------T 2 root root 0 2012-08-04 11:23 backward_sm1003 
---------T 2 root root 0 2012-08-04 11:23 backward_sm1007 
---------T 2 root root 0 2012-08-04 11:23 backward_sm1029 


I suspect that these are the ones that are responsible for the enormous 
expansion of the storage space on this brick and the very slow speed of the 
'remove-brick' operation. 


Does this sound possible? Can I delete these files on the brick to resolve the 
imbalance? If not, is there a way to process them in some better way to 
rationalize the imbalance? 

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