On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Joe Julian <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thinking about it more, I'd still rather have this functionality exposed at > the client through xattrs. For 5 years I've thought about this, and the more > I encounter split-brain, the more I think this is the needed approach. > > "getfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.stat" returns > xml/json/some_madeup_datastructure with the results of stat from each brick > "getfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.afr" returns the afr matrix > "setfattr -n trusted.glusterfs.sb-pick -v "server2:/srv/brick1" > > That gives us the tools we need to choose what to do with any given > split-brain. For large swaths of automated repair, we can use find. > > I suppose that last bit could still be implemented through that cli command. Even this makes sense, my overall pain point was the proposed CLI isn't solving anything worthwhile. -- Religious confuse piety with mere ritual, the virtuous confuse regulation with outcomes _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
