Bug 798594

Summary: Write-behind: enable-trickling-writes option not working
Product: [Community] GlusterFS Reporter: Anush Shetty <ashetty>
Component: write-behindAssignee: Raghavendra G <rgowdapp>
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Description Anush Shetty 2012-02-29 10:53:44 UTC 
Description of problem: In write-behind, the enable-trickling-writes option isn't working properly. The fuse client was mounted with --direct-io-mode=on option when enable-trickling-writes option was on. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.3.0qa24


How reproducible: Consistently


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mount the fuse client with --direct-io-mode=on and enable-trickling-writes option set to on. While the writes are in progress on the client, the stat -c %s value is measured from the backend.

2. Repeat the same step above but by mounting the fuse client with --direct-io-mode=on and enable-trickling-writes option set to off.

  
Actual results:

The stat on the backend returned updated values even when enable-trickling-writes was off. The fd wasn't closed or the size didn't exceed 128k

Expected results:
The stat shouldn't have returned updated values. 
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Comment 1 Raghavendra G 2012-03-28 04:44:03 UTC 
Created attachment 573222 [details]
test-case

With this test case, the option enable-trickling-writes work as expected.
Comment 2 Raghavendra G 2012-03-28 04:46:54 UTC 
With the attached test case I've found that the option works as expected. Please make sure that
1. volume file is actually changed with correct option/value.
2. there are no other operations interleaved between writes, since they tend to flush the writes to disk. For eg., stat should be done on backend instead from the mountpoint since stat flushes all the writes issued before.

With the above observations, I am closing the bug.