Hi,
I can confirm that after setting these two options, I haven't encountered
disk corruptions anymore.
The downside, is that at least for me it had a pretty big impact on
performance.
The iops really went down - performing  inside vm fio tests.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 07:03 Krutika Dhananjay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Could you enable strict-o-direct and disable remote-dio on the src volume
> as well, restart the vms on "old" and retry migration?
>
> # gluster volume set <VOLNAME> performance.strict-o-direct on
> # gluster volume set <VOLNAME> network.remote-dio off
>
> -Krutika
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:32 PM Sander Hoentjen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 26-03-19 14:23, Sahina Bose wrote:
>> > +Krutika Dhananjay and gluster ml
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 6:16 PM Sander Hoentjen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> tl;dr We have disk corruption when doing live storage migration on
>> oVirt
>> >> 4.2 with gluster 3.12.15. Any idea why?
>> >>
>> >> We have a 3-node oVirt cluster that is both compute and
>> gluster-storage.
>> >> The manager runs on separate hardware. We are running out of space on
>> >> this volume, so we added another Gluster volume that is bigger, put a
>> >> storage domain on it and then we migrated VM's to it with LSM. After
>> >> some time, we noticed that (some of) the migrated VM's had corrupted
>> >> filesystems. After moving everything back with export-import to the old
>> >> domain where possible, and recovering from backups where needed we set
>> >> off to investigate this issue.
>> >>
>> >> We are now at the point where we can reproduce this issue within a day.
>> >> What we have found so far:
>> >> 1) The corruption occurs at the very end of the replication step, most
>> >> probably between START and FINISH of diskReplicateFinish, before the
>> >> START merge step
>> >> 2) In the corrupted VM, at some place where data should be, this data
>> is
>> >> replaced by zero's. This can be file-contents or a directory-structure
>> >> or whatever.
>> >> 3) The source gluster volume has different settings then the
>> destination
>> >> (Mostly because the defaults were different at creation time):
>> >>
>> >> Setting                                 old(src)  new(dst)
>> >> cluster.op-version                      30800     30800 (the same)
>> >> cluster.max-op-version                  31202     31202 (the same)
>> >> cluster.metadata-self-heal              off       on
>> >> cluster.data-self-heal                  off       on
>> >> cluster.entry-self-heal                 off       on
>> >> performance.low-prio-threads            16        32
>> >> performance.strict-o-direct             off       on
>> >> network.ping-timeout                    42        30
>> >> network.remote-dio                      enable    off
>> >> transport.address-family                -         inet
>> >> performance.stat-prefetch               off       on
>> >> features.shard-block-size               512MB     64MB
>> >> cluster.shd-max-threads                 1         8
>> >> cluster.shd-wait-qlength                1024      10000
>> >> cluster.locking-scheme                  full      granular
>> >> cluster.granular-entry-heal             no        enable
>> >>
>> >> 4) To test, we migrate some VM's back and forth. The corruption does
>> not
>> >> occur every time. To this point it only occurs from old to new, but we
>> >> don't have enough data-points to be sure about that.
>> >>
>> >> Anybody an idea what is causing the corruption? Is this the best list
>> to
>> >> ask, or should I ask on a Gluster list? I am not sure if this is oVirt
>> >> specific or Gluster specific though.
>> > Do you have logs from old and new gluster volumes? Any errors in the
>> > new volume's fuse mount logs?
>>
>> Around the time of corruption I see the message:
>> The message "I [MSGID: 133017] [shard.c:4941:shard_seek]
>> 0-ZoneA_Gluster1-shard: seek called on
>> 7fabc273-3d8a-4a49-8906-b8ccbea4a49f. [Operation not supported]" repeated
>> 231 times between [2019-03-26 13:14:22.297333] and [2019-03-26
>> 13:15:42.912170]
>>
>> I also see this message at other times, when I don't see the corruption
>> occur, though.
>>
>> --
>> Sander
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