Martin, If you are modifying backend directly, you shouldn't do it. Krishna On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Martin Fick <mogulguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Thu, 7/17/08, Tomáš Siegl <tomas.siegl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Step1: Client1: cp test_file.txt /mnt/gluster/ >> Step2: Brick1 and Brick4: has test_file.txt in >> /mnt/gluster/ directory >> Sept3: Client1: ls /mnt/gluster - test_file.txt is present >> >> Step4: Brick1: rm /mnt/gluster/test_file.txt >> Step5. Client1: cat /mnt/gluster/test_file.txt -> we >> will get contents >> of file from brick4 >> >> Step6. Brick1 ls /home/export is empty. Selfheal not >> recovered file. > > I suspect that this is normal, you are not suppose to modify > the bricks manually from underneath AFR. AFR uses extended > attributes to keep file version metadata. When you manually > deleted the file in step4 the directory version metadata should > not have been updated so I suspect that caused the mismatch > to go undetected. The self heal would have occurred if the > brick node were down and the file was deleted by client and > then the brick node returned to operation. > > -Martin > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >
