Bug 761750 (GLUSTER-18)

Summary:	Unexpected "possible split-brain" encountered
Product:	[Community] GlusterFS	Reporter:	Vikas Gorur <vikas>
Component:	replicate	Assignee:	Vikas Gorur <vikas>
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Version:	mainline	CC:	gluster-bugs, gowda
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Description Vikas Gorur 2009-06-16 09:38:38 UTC

Migrated from rt #1100

Tue Jun 02 08:04:11 2009  	 guru - Ticket created  	 	 

Server Volume Spec file: /share/qa_spec_files/b/server.vol,
Client Volume Spec file: /share/qa_spec_files/b/client.vol,
Log file directory: /var/log/glusterfs,
* 2 Server distribute over replicate,
* Seen while running rsync (among other things),
* Was running du on the rsync\'ing directory for a short while rsync was running

Ticket data: [ gw ] /share/tickets/1100

Log files:
/share/tickets/1100/n1-fsd.2.0.2_5.log
/share/tickets/1100/n4-fs.2.0.2_5.log
/share/tickets/1100/n4-fsd.2.0.2_5.log

Messages similar to the following were seen:

[2009-06-02 12:28:21] E [afr-self-heal-data.c:856:afr_sh_data_fix]
replicate1: Unable to self-heal contents of
'/rsync/usr/share/doc/cups-1.2.4/de/images/button-hold-job.gif'
(possible split-brain). Please delete the file from all but the
preferred subvolume.

Comment 1 Vikas Gorur 2009-11-16 11:24:51 UTC

Likely a consequence of race condition in posix_xattrop, fixed under:

http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=326

Closing this bug for now. Please re-open if seen again.