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Improving Geo-replication Status

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Geo-replication is a feature in Glusterfs to sync data from one Gluster Volume to another.

Current Geo-replication status has the following limitations.

  • Order of bricks is not uniform. Glusterd collects the status details from all other nodes and displays in random order. This is very confusing to users. Order of bricks in status should be in the same order as in Volume info.
  • If initiator Glusterd(where the command is run) couldn’t reach other node’s Glusterd then current CLI is skipping that in the status output. Status should be shown as “Unknown” without spoiling the order.
  • Geo-rep status mixes the rows from multiple sessions depending on the response received from other node’s Glusterds.

Until the above issues are fixed in official Gluster CLI, we can use gluster-georep-status tool from gluster-tools project. This tool merges Volume info and Geo-rep status to identify the Offline status and bricks order.

Installation instructions are available in project README

This tool also supports filters like --with-status=active, --with-crawl-status=changelog etc.

Example output:

$ gluster-georep-status
SESSION: photos ==> bkp1.example.com::backup_photos
+-------------------------------------+---------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
| MASTER                              | STATUS  | CRAWL STATUS    | SLAVE NODE          | LAST SYNCED         | CHKPT TIME | CHKPT COMPLETED | CHKPT COMPLETION TIME |
+-------------------------------------+---------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
| prod1.example.com:/bricks/photos/b1 | Active  | Changelog Crawl | remote1.example.com | 2019-03-27 08:34:40 |    N/A     |       N/A       |          N/A          |
| prod2.example.com:/bricks/photos/b2 | Passive | N/A             | N/A                 | N/A                 |    N/A     |       N/A       |          N/A          |
| prod3.example.com:/bricks/photos/b3 | Passive | N/A             | N/A                 | N/A                 |    N/A     |       N/A       |          N/A          |
+-------------------------------------+---------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------+-----------------------+

SESSION: data ==> geoaccount@bkp2.example.com::backup_data
+-----------------------------------+---------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
| MASTER                            | STATUS  | CRAWL STATUS    | SLAVE NODE          | LAST SYNCED         | CHKPT TIME | CHKPT COMPLETED | CHKPT COMPLETION TIME |
+-----------------------------------+---------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
| prod1.example.com:/bricks/data/b1 | Stopped | N/A             | N/A                 | N/A                 |    N/A     |       N/A       |          N/A          |
| prod2.example.com:/bricks/data/b2 | Stopped | N/A             | N/A                 | N/A                 |    N/A     |       N/A       |          N/A          |
| prod3.example.com:/bricks/data/b3 | Stopped | N/A             | N/A                 | N/A                 |    N/A     |       N/A       |          N/A          |
+-----------------------------------+---------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------------+------------+-----------------+-----------------------+

Comments & Suggestions Welcome.

Gluster Engineer working at Red Hat

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