REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/10370 (ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.) posted (#2) for review on master by Joseph Fernandes (josferna)

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/10370 (ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.) posted (#3) for review on master by Joseph Fernandes (josferna)

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/10370 (ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.) posted (#4) for review on master by Joseph Fernandes (josferna)

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/10370 (ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.) posted (#5) for review on master by Joseph Fernandes (josferna)

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/10370 (ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.) posted (#6) for review on master by Joseph Fernandes (josferna)

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/10370 (ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.) posted (#8) for review on master by Dan Lambright (dlambrig)

COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/10370 committed in master by Vijay Bellur (vbellur) 
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commit cb11dd91a6cc296e4a3808364077f4eacb810e48
Author: Joseph Fernandes <josferna>
Date:   Fri Apr 24 19:22:44 2015 +0530

    ctr/xlator: Named lookup heal of pre-existing files, before ctr was ON.
    
    Problem: The CTR xlator records file meta (heat/hardlinks)
    into the data. This works fine for files which are created
    after ctr xlator is switched ON. But for files which were
    created before CTR xlator is ON, CTR xlator is not able to
    record either of the meta i.e heat or hardlinks. Thus making
    those files immune to promotions/demotions.
    
    Solution: The solution that is implemented in this patch is
    do ctr-db heal of all those pre-existent files, using named lookup.
    For this purpose we use the inode-xlator context variable option
    in gluster.
    The inode-xlator context variable for ctr xlator will have the
    following,
        a. A Lock for the context variable
        b. A hardlink list: This list represents the successful looked
           up hardlinks.
    These are the scenarios when the hardlink list is updated:
    1) Named-Lookup: Whenever a named lookup happens on a file, in the
       wind path we copy all required hardlink and inode information to
       ctr_db_record structure, which resides in the frame->local variable.
       We dont update the database in wind. During the unwind, we read the
       information from the ctr_db_record and ,
       Check if the inode context variable is created, if not we create it.
       Check if the hard link is there in the hardlink list.
          If its not there we add it to the list and send a update to the
          database using libgfdb.
          Please note: The database transaction can fail(and we ignore) as there
          already might be a record in the db. This update to the db is to heal
          if its not there.
          If its there in the list we ignore it.
    2) Inode Forget: Whenever an inode forget hits we clear the hardlink list in
       the inode context variable and delete the inode context variable.
       Please note: An inode forget may happen for two reason,
       a. when the inode is delete.
       b. the in-memory inode is evicted from the inode table due to cache limits.
    3) create: whenever a create happens we create the inode context variable and
       add the hardlink. The database updation is done as usual by ctr.
    4) link: whenever a hardlink is created for the inode, we create the inode context
       variable, if not present, and add the hardlink to the list.
    5) unlink: whenever a unlink happens we delete the hardlink from the list.
    6) mknod: same as create.
    7) rename: whenever a rename happens we update the hardlink in list. if the hardlink
       was not present for updation, we add the hardlink to the list.
    
    What is pending:
    1) This solution will only work for named lookups.
    2) We dont track afr-self-heal/dht-rebalancer traffic for healing.
    
    Change-Id: Ia4bbaf84128ad6ce8c3ddd70bcfa82894c79585f
    BUG: 1212037
    Signed-off-by: Joseph Fernandes <josferna>
    Signed-off-by: Dan Lambright <dlambrig>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10370
    Reviewed-by: Jeff Darcy <jdarcy>
    Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins.com>
    Tested-by: NetBSD Build System
    Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur>

This change should not be in "ON_QA", the patch posted for this bug is only available in the master branch and not in a release yet. Moving back to MODIFIED until there is an beta release for the next GlusterFS version.

This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.8.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.8.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://blog.gluster.org/2016/06/glusterfs-3-8-released/
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user