Running 3.3.1 on everything, client and servers :(

Thomas Wakefield
Sr Sys Admin @ COLA
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On Apr 16, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Ling Ho <l...@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On 04/15/2013 06:35 PM, Thomas Wakefield wrote:
>> Help-
>> 
>> I have multiple gluster filesystems, all with the setting: 
>> cluster.min-free-disk: 500GB.  My understanding is that this setting should 
>> stop new writes to a brick with less than 500GB of free space.  But that 
>> existing files might expand, which is why I went with a high number like 
>> 500GB.  But I am still getting full bricks, frequently it's the first brick 
>> in the cluster that suddenly fills up.
>> 
>> Can someone tell me how gluster chooses where to write a file.  And why the 
>> min-free-disk is being ignored.
>> 
>> Running 3.3.1 currently on all servers.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Tom
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> Make sure you are running 3.3.1 also on all the clients also. It is 
> determined by the clients. I noticed there is a fix there is in 3.3.1 which 
> is not in 3.3.0. In 3.3.0, it will try writing to the next brick which is the 
> 1st brick, but only check if it is not 100% (completely) free. If it has 1 
> byte left, it will start writing to it, and that's why the 1st brick will get 
> filled up.
> 
> ...
> ling
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