They are not in split-brain, I responded to your previous mail just now giving examples of split-brain. Avati, What should be the behavior when there is metadata split-brain?. P.S. I think I forgot to CC avati in prev mail. I think he will respond this time. Pranith. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Pranith Kumar Karampuri" <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx>, gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:10:57 PM Subject: Re: split brain: how should it be cured? On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:01:16AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > Um, now both bricks have the split brain flag. How removing the file on > one brick will make it recreated on the other one, but the split brain > flag is sticky! I was about to resume investigation more than a day later, and the offending file can now be readen without getting EIO. The split brain flags are stil lthere, though (see below). Does that makes sens, or did I overlooked something or got confused? Anyone can explain me how this thing is supposed to work? On brick1, yesterday: trusted.afr.pfs-client-0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 trusted.afr.pfs-client-1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 Today: trusted.afr.pfs-client-0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 trusted.afr.pfs-client-1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 On brick2, yesterday: trusted.afr.pfs-client-0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 trusted.afr.pfs-client-1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 Today: trusted.afr.pfs-client-0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 trusted.afr.pfs-client-1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 -- Emmanuel Dreyfus manu@xxxxxxxxxx