He is writing the algorithm in detail so the source code is not the only method to understand the algorithm. We cannot expect all filesystem users to be C coding experts .. so the effort is on to explain stuff in an easy to understand way ..in fact I would welcome C gurus on the community to contribute to such code documentation projects for some of the more involved functionality. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed W <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Tejas N. Bhise <tejas@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:56:18 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: self heal problem On 27/03/2010 17:19, Tejas N. Bhise wrote: > > >> It would seem that you could cause the situation that Stephen describes >> as follows: >> > Just to clarify, were you able to create the failure with these steps ? > If yes then I will open a defect. If on the other hand you want to know > how this situation will be handled - Vikas is writing a document about > replication. He will include this case also. > No, it's just a theoretical question - I have read Vikas's page so far and it looks like it will eventually answer this kind of question, but not yet! Thanks Ed W