Suppose we have a 2+1 EC pool, and an object is
missing 2 shards on
both non-primary osds. We initiate backfill by setting a non-primary
osd out. During the backfill the primary osd detects the missing
shards and the pg enters "backfill_unfound" state, the last_backfill
position is properly set to the object before the "unfound" (in
post-nautilus, for nautilus I opened [1] to make it work). If
re-peering occurs due to a non-primary osd is restarted, the backfill
is restarted from the last_backfill position and the "unfound" object
is detected again. But if re-peering occurs due the primary osd is
temporarily stopped (restarted), another non-primary osd becomes
primary and "drives" the backfill from the last_backfill position, and
as the shard is missing here it is just skipped from the backfill, the
missing object is not detected and the pg enters clean state.
Is there something that can/should be improved here? It is rather
unfortunate that the information about missing object is lost on the
restart (until scrub or next backfill). On the other hand the
situation when we have many shards are missing for an object is rather
unlikely. Also, if for example it happened that the shard was missing
on the primary it would not even be detected on backfill.
[1]
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/41293
In the case of primary osd, is there a case where the user wants to reset the state (from
unfound state)?
If we fix this behavior, is there another problem because we can't reset the state?
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Jin