Bug 1233608 - `gluster volume heal <vol-name> split-brain' does not heal if data/metadata/entry self-heal options are turned off
Summary: `gluster volume heal <vol-name> split-brain' does not heal if data/metadata/e...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1403840
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Gluster Storage
Classification: Red Hat Storage
Component: replicate
Version: rhgs-3.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
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Assignee: Ravishankar N
QA Contact: storage-qa-internal@redhat.com
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Blocks: 1216951 1223636 1234054 1405126 1405130
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Reported: 2015-06-19 09:29 UTC by Shruti Sampat
Modified: 2016-12-16 04:44 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Known Issue
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When cluster.data-self-heal, cluster.metadata-self-heal and cluster.entry-self-heal are set to off (through volume set commands), the Gluster CLI to resolve split-brain fails with 'File not in split brain' message (even though the file is in split brain). Workaround: Do not turn off the heal options when you run the split-brain resolution Gluster CLI commands.
Clone Of:
: 1234054 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-12-16 04:44:39 UTC
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Description Shruti Sampat 2015-06-19 09:29:50 UTC
Description of problem:
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If a file in data/metadata/entry split-brain is attempted to be healed using the `gluster volume heal <vol-name> split-brain' command, the heal fails if the respective data/metadata/entry self-heal volume option is turned off. This should not be the case, as glfsheal should not take these options into consideration.

See below, sample output of the command -

# gluster v heal rep2 split-brain source-brick 10.70.37.134:/rhs/brick6/b1/ /bar
Healing /bar failed: File not in split-brain.
Volume heal failed.

# gluster v heal rep2 split-brain bigger-file /bar                                                                                                   
Healing /bar failed: File not in split-brain.
Volume heal failed.

Volume configuration -

# gluster v info rep2
 
Volume Name: rep2
Type: Replicate
Volume ID: 0bf8fb07-8b09-4be8-94e7-29f4d3d7632f
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: 10.70.37.208:/rhs/brick6/b1
Brick2: 10.70.37.134:/rhs/brick6/b1
Options Reconfigured:
cluster.entry-self-heal: off
cluster.data-self-heal: off
cluster.metadata-self-heal: off
cluster.self-heal-daemon: off
features.uss: on
features.quota-deem-statfs: on
features.inode-quota: on
features.quota: on
performance.readdir-ahead: on


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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glusterfs-3.7.1-3.el6rhs.x86_64

How reproducible:
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100%

Steps to Reproduce:
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1. Set the following options on a 1x2 volume -
 
cluster.entry-self-heal: off
cluster.data-self-heal: off
cluster.metadata-self-heal: off
cluster.self-heal-daemon: off

2. Kill one brick of the replica set.
3. From the mount write to an existing file, or perform metadata operations like chmod.
4. Start the volume with force.
5. Kill the other brick in the replica set.
6. Perform data/metadata operations on the same file.
7. Start the volume with force and try to heal the now split-brained file using the above mentioned CLI.

Actual results:
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Heal fails.

Expected results:
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Heal is expected to succeed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Shruti Sampat 2015-06-19 11:48:07 UTC
Heal also fails when trying to resolve split-brain from the client by setting extended attributes, when the data/metadata self-heal options are turned off. With the options turned on, heal works as expected. This needs to be fixed too as part of this BZ.

Comment 2 Ravishankar N 2015-06-20 16:03:24 UTC
The bug in the description needs to be fixed. After the initial discussion with Shruti, I was giving some more thought to the expected behaviour for comment #1 It seems to me that if the client side heal options are disabled via volume set, then split-brain healing from mount (via setfattr interface) should also honour that. i.e. it should not heal the file. 

If a particular client wants to override the heal options which are disabled on an entire volume basis, it can always mount the volume with the heal options enabled as fuse mount options. ( --xlator-option *replicate*.data-self-heal=on etc.)

Comment 6 Ravishankar N 2015-07-23 05:01:33 UTC
LGTM.

Comment 7 Ravishankar N 2016-12-16 04:44:39 UTC
Closing this as a duplicate of 1403840 since it has all acks and the problem/steps to verify the fix are the same.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1403840 ***


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