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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>