On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:57:20PM -0400, Brent A Nelson wrote: > Setting "option aggregate-size 0" does not eliminate the mtime glitch > 100%. Copying /usr to an afr/unify glusterfs, I found that almost > everything was okay, but a handful of files on one server had updated > mtimes, and a different handful on the other server did, as well. This is kind of crucial since self-healing relies on inode metadata (including mtime)... > So, even with aggregation out of action, write-behind will still > occasionally alter mtimes on a "cp -a". An easy way to detect this should be to use rsync in both directions, with the -n option. (rsync -avn source_dir/. target_dir/.) Cheers Steffen