On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:00:08PM -0700, Anand Avati wrote:I just killed one brick while building the NetBSD tree. As I reported
> On the contrary, "Yesterday" example is not a split brain, but "today"
> example is a split brain. Though I'm not sure what steps you performed
> before you landed in that situation.
earlier, this wrecks the filesystem beyond recovery: I have to unmount
and remont in order to use it again. I have not been able to track
this down to a simple test case, though.
What about extended attributes?
> The entire problem boils down to basically two attributes
> - permission and ownership.
Extended attributes today are treated as an atomic unit w.r.t self-healing (just like directory entries).
Avati
