Emmanuel, Reading a regular file with data split-brain, file/dir with different gfids are the things that give EIO at the moment. Avati, What action do you think we shall take in this scenario?. Pranith. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> To: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:21:15 PM Subject: Self heal fails but file can be accessed Hi I do this: $ ls -l /pfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/tools/sed/Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 manu manu 159 Jun 18 2006 /pfs/manu/netbsd/usr/src/tools/sed/Makefile And I get that in the client logs: [2012-06-14 11:50:24.352299] I [afr-common.c:1340:afr_launch_self_heal] 0-pfs-replicate-0: background meta-data self-heal triggered. path: /manu/netbsd/usr/src/tools/sed/Makefile, reason: lookup detected pending operations [2012-06-14 11:50:24.353729] E [afr-self-heal-metadata.c:481:afr_sh_metadata_fix] 0-pfs-replicate-0: Unable to self-heal permissions/ownership of '/manu/netbsd/usr/src/tools/sed/Makefile' (possible split-brain). Please fix the file on all backend volumes [2012-06-14 11:50:24.354470] I [afr-self-heal-metadata.c:56:afr_sh_metadata_done] 0-pfs-replicate-0: split-brain detected, aborting selfheal of /manu/netbsd/usr/src/tools/sed/Makefile [2012-06-14 11:50:24.354669] E [afr-self-heal-common.c:2156:afr_self_heal_completion_cbk] 0-pfs-replicate-0: background meta-data self-heal failed on /manu/netbsd/usr/src/tools/sed/Makefile How should I understand that behavior? Shouldn't I get EIO? -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel