[ovirt-users] Re: Sometimes paused due to unknown storage error on gluster

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:16 PM Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.comwrote: Hi Gianluca, I'd prefer to stick on oVirt release version of Gluster if possible Also check the gluster's op-version, as this limits some of the features. What do you mean by thgis? > If there are none - enable trace logs in gluster ( > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.1... > ), start volume peofiling, reproduce the issue and then reduce the log > level (it's generating a lot of logs) and stop the profiling. > Once that info is collected, some of the Gluster members can check the > situation. > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov Ok. I think that the INFO level set on the different layers outlined problem somehow related to shardin. Related to this, I found no official docs on Gluster web site after 3.7 version... where is it? Only information I found was in Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 Administration Guide, but I would expect something more upstream... In particular in my case where I have only one host and the gluster volumes are single brick based, do you think I can try to disable sharding and verify if using new disks with it disabled and oVirt thin provisioned disks let the problem go away? Also, I found some information about sharding block size. Apparently the only supported size on Red Hat Gluster Storage is 512MB, but oVirt sets it to 64MB....? I also found a bugzilla about passing from 128MB to 64MB in oVirt 4.1.5: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1469436 Now I see that by default and so also in my environment I have: features.shard on features.shard-block-size 64MB features.shard-lru-limit 16384 features.shard-deletion-rate 100 Not clear how to cross-check for all the values above in docs.... Can I safely set features.shard off In Red Hat Gluster storage admin guide it is considered only for replicated gluster volumes (and so also ditributed-replicated...) But in my case with single host and single beick for volumes I think it doesn't give any particular benefit, isn't it? I found this interesting post about sharding and connection between image files and shard files: http://opensource-storage.blogspot.com/2016/07/de-mystifying-gluster-shar... Gianluca