dalwise

Thanks for your help, Xavi. > How many files are there in the volume ? is it possible that there are more than 40 million files with many directories ?...

> If there's new data being added to the volume, it could be explained by the different times the find command was run. Otherwise it's something we will need to...

Thanks Xavi! I'll do the following then: 1) Look for differences in the `find` of bricks in `host_name21` and `host_name22` 2) Back up the bricks on both hosts 3) Set...

Hi Xavi, I'm just providing a quick update. The backups are still ongoing, even when backing up directly from the bricks. I ran out of inodes for the backup, so...

Hi @xhernandez, thanks for checking in! Self-heal is ongoing. It is currently at over 64M and increasing by about ~50k per hour. I had some problems backing up the bricks....

> Many of the files inside .glusterfs are hardlinks to entries outside it, so unless you use -H option in rsync, the number of inodes created will be much higher....

Hi @xhernandez, The backup completed and I have been applying the solutions that you suggested from #3025, while monitoring the increase in inodes (via `df -i`). Unfortunately I haven't seen...

Thank you @xhernandez for your help and quick response! > @dalwise when you do configuration changes, you should also restart the self-heal processes started manually by you because they are...

Hi @xhernandez, I'm definitely glad that we clarified that and I'm sorry for not bringing it up earlier. Adding extra processes in the other two nodes caused a huge increase...

Thanks for the feedback @xhernandez. As we were expecting the count of files in need of healing decreased quickly over the last couple of days. But it seems to have...