The changelogging scheme of AFR stores information about the state
of all replicas in all replicas (in the extended attribute of the
respective files on each server) in the form of 'pending counts'
of operations (effectively "dirty flags"). These xattrs are blindly
trusted while performing self-heal, and therefore utmost care has
to be taken while updating and maintaing them.
The most critical updation is the clearing of the pending counts
corresponding to the *other* server in the changelog of a given
server. Before clearing the pending count, we need durability
guarantee of the write which was performed on the other server.
To obtain such a guarantee, it may be necessary to explicitly
introduce an fsync() phase (if the file itself wasn't already
opened with O_SYNC).
This patch introduces the detection of unstable stable writes on
a file and issues explicit fsync() on the servers before performing
the POST-OP clearing of pending flags.
Change-Id: I2171b86a74ec91e40e5877eef0a4e7379578ecf7
BUG: 927146
Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/4721
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Krishnan Parthasarathi <kparthas@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>