David-Sarah Hopwood <[email protected]> writes: > Greg Troxel wrote: >> I did a 'tahoe --check --raw' on my main directory in the pubgrid, and >> got an odd report: the object is 'unhealthy', even though all 10 shares >> are present, plus two leftover shares of a previous version. I would >> call that healthy with some stale bits in need of garbage collection, >> but maybe I don't get it. > > The current checker is supposed to consider a file to be unhealthy if fewer > than N (in this case 10) shares are present on any servers.
ok; that's reasonable even if it doesn't match the 3/7/10 notion. > So I don't > understand why this file was considered unhealthy. I suspect it has to do with the 2 shares of the previous sequence number. But I don't have any evidence. > We want to change the health criterion to take into account share > distribution (http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/614). By that > criterion, this file should still be considered healthy, but only just > for the default parameters. (It has a happiness of 7, because the shares > are distributed between only 7 servers.) That makes sense to me. >> Another oddity is that running check on another client resulted in >> seeing very few shares. Both clients have real IP addresses. But, the >> one that saw only 4 shares is running (w/o storage) on a machine that >> also runs a storage node. > > This seems to be because only 5 servers responded. The servers that did > respond, reported the same shares that they had in the first check. > > Had the client just been started? In that case it might not have > connected to all available storage servers yet > (http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/719). I tested this morning, and the client process was started on 28 July. It claimed to be connected to ~10 servers. But, there could be a firewall involved. Are there keepalives on the client/server connections.
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