On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:04 PM Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Siavash Safi <siavash.s...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:07 PM Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Siavash Safi <siavash.s...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > An unknown bug broke our gluster storage (dom_md/ids is corrupted) and
> >> > oVirt
> >> > no longer activates the storage(I tried to recover it using the
> similar
> >> > issues reported in mailing list but it didn't work).
> >>
> >> Can you explain what you did?
> >
> > cd /mnt/4697fbde-45fb-4f91-ac4c-5516bc59f683/dom_md/
> > rm ids
> > touch ids
> > sanlock direct init -s 4697fbde-45fb-4f91-ac4c-5516bc59f683:0:ids:1048576
>
> The offset parameter should be 0, not 1048576:
>
>     sanlock direct init -s 4697fbde-45fb-4f91-ac4c-5516bc59f683:0:ids:0
>
> See
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-February/038046.html
>
> Please retry this.
>
> I didn't know what the number at the end of the sring does ;)


> Also, are you using replica 3? These issues  typically happened when people
> used replica 2 gluster volumes.
>
Actually we removed one of the broken nodes from gluster and tried to setup
local storage.
I wiped the storage and added the bricks back to gluster.

Thanks Nir, recreating the ids file with correct offset and resizing
gluster to replica 3 fixed the issue :)

>
> >> The best way to fix this is to initialize the corrupt id file and
> >> activate the domain.
> >
> > This would be great!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > As I checked VM disk images are still accessible when I mount the
> >> > gluster
> >> > storage manually.
> >> > How can we manually move the VM disk images to local storage? (oVirt
> >> > complains about gluster storage being inactive when using the web
> >> > interface
> >> > for move/copy)
> >>
> >> You can easily copy the images to another file based storage (nfs,
> >> gluster) like this:
> >>
> >> 1. activate other storage domain using engine
> >> 2. mount gluster domain manually
> >> 3. copy the image from gluster domain to the other domain:
> >>
> >> cp -r gluster-domain-mountpoint/images/image-uuid
> >> /rhev/data-center/mnt/server:_path/other-domain-uuid/images/
> >>
> >> But the images will not be available since engine does know them.
> >> Maybe this can be
> >> fixed by modifying engine database.
> >>
> > How complicated is it?
>
> I never tried this, lets try the simple way first.
>
> >> Another solution (if you are using ovirt 4.0), is to upload the images
> >> to a new disk,
> >> and attach the disk to the vm instead of the missing disk.
> >
> > We are running 3.6
>
> Maybe consider an upgrade?
>
> Nir
>
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