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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>Yes, I’ve seen your blog post, but I don’t understand why I get so many problems with symlinks. Our use cases are insert and read-only. We don’t update our files, and we don’t move them either, and only 1 server out of 8 generates missing links like these. I understand the mappings with the gfids, but I don’t know why it gets there.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'>That server is not “on balance†with the others, it seems to hold more data than the others, we’re trying to rebalance the gluster, but it doesn’t seem to work, and I suspect the broken symlinks to prevent the rebalancing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'> Joe Julian [mailto:joe@julianfamily.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 27 septembre 2013 13:36<br><b>To:</b> Jocelyn Hotte; gluster-users@gluster.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gluster-users] .gluster folder full of dangling symlinks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>Have you read, <a href="http://joejulian.name/blog/what-is-this-new-glusterfs-directory-in-33/">http://joejulian.name/blog/what-is-this-new-glusterfs-directory-in-33/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>Jocelyn Hotte <</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><a href="mailto:jocelyn.hotte@ubisoft.com"><span lang=EN-CA>jocelyn.hotte@ubisoft.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Hello, I have a Gluster cluster with the following layout: 4 x 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>I have one brick which its .gluster folder is full of dangling links. We’ve tried cleaning them out and triggering a heal, but they keep coming back. Is there something I could try?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:20.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA>Jocelyn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-CA> <o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></pre><pre><br><span lang=EN-CA>Gluster-users mailing list<br></span><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org"><span lang=EN-CA>Gluster-users@gluster.org</span></a><span lang=EN-CA><br></span><a href="http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users"><span lang=EN-CA>http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</span></a><span lang=EN-CA><o:p></o:p></span></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FR-CA'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>