Hello all, during the latest discussion I always wondered how an admin of some replication setup can find out easily if the glusterfs is in-sync or at least mostly synced or which files are really out-of-sync without using getfattr on _all_ files. Since you can have millions of files it is obvious that ls -lR over the whole tree has chances to never return because of the pure run time. So it would be great to have some method of finding only the out-of-sync files inside the glusterfs. And exactly for that case I would like to make this proposal: How about creating an option to specify a directory on each server, where the server itself (i.e. glusterfsd) creates a softlink to every file he sets the xattrs to a value that implies some of his fellow servers is out-of-sync. As soon as this xattr gets cleared the softlink is removed. Of course the softlink should point to the full path and not a relative one. This would allow to get a replication in-sync simply by stating the files pointed to by the softlinks. I guess that this idea is easy to implement and trivial in usage. I hope my explanation is good enough, if not feel free to ask anything. What do you think? -- Regards, Stephan
