On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy <ab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brandon Lamb wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy <ab@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> RACE CONDITION IN AFR: >>> ---------------------- >>> * Who is affected? >>> If you are using AFR in a multi-user environment and your applications >>> are writing to common files without locks, there is a possibility >>> CORRUPTION. >>> >>> GlusterFS is expected to write atomically across replicated volumes >>> when the files are opened with O_APPEND mode, irrespective of locks. >>> Fix in works will ensure all writes to be atomic always. We will >>> make an announcement shortly. >>> >>> Thanks to Gordan Bobic and Martin Fick for identifying this bug. >>> >>> -- >>> Anand Babu Periasamy >>> GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 >>> Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] >>> The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] >>> Z RESEARCH Inc [http://www.zresearch.com] >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-devel mailing list >>> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> >> Is corruption the correct word here, or would it be more accurate to >> say "inconsistent"? I suppose it is a point of view. >> >> It is just that to me corruption means the data in my files is >> unusable, which is slightly different than the data is "good" on both >> copies, they just are not the SAME. I could still at least pick one to >> use, whereas corruption to means I have no good data. >> >> Unimportant maybe but corruption might freak people out a little more >> >> =P > > You are correct. No information is lost, but files get inconsistent. > This is still a very critical issue to us. Being in the file system > space, we should always be paranoid about reliability and correctness. > > -- > Anand Babu Periasamy > GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 > Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] > The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] > Z RESEARCH Inc [http://www.zresearch.com] Sooo you guys should have this fixed by, say, this afternoon? Right on! =P hehehe i kid i kid!
