Thankyou for your reply! Pointing out the extended attributes use, this put us at ease as to gluster doing the right thing with older files. Chris Davies also pointed out: -- If you have clientside AFR on, as you request files from the mounted volume, if they are not on both machines, the namespace will automatically repopulate the other machine. http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_AFR_Translator On that page, you can see a way to force a self-heal with $ find /mnt/glusterfs -type f -print0 | xargs -0 head -c1 >/dev/null which is listed about 1/3 of the way down the page. -- We went ahead and everything ran smoothly. The configuration changes were only to make sure the right bricks were accessed by the clients (copying the vm with a new IP required this change). Thanks again for your help! Raghavendra G wrote: > Hi michael, > some are inlined. > > On Mon, Aug 11 2008 at 5:29 AM, Michael Messig > <michael.messig at sitepoint.com <mailto:michael.messig at sitepoint.com>> > wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I have two nodes set up using afr. Overnight the first machine > died and > i've had to rebuild it based on a copy of the second machine (they are > both vm's). > > > after rebuild, are the both nodes identical? If so, did you set > extended attributes appropriately for the files you repaired or > created (afr uses extended attributes to synchronise files/directories > b/w its children). > > Is there anything bad that will happen if I start the > rebuilt first machine (i've changed the configuration accordingly)? > > > Did you change the glusterfs configuration? If so, can you send the > configuration files before and after the failure? > > > I.e > will gluster just pick up on its merry way, get all the updates > from the > second machine that have occured since the copy and not destroy the > filesystem? > > Thanks! > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org <mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org> > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > -- > Raghavendra G > > A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun, > Said, "Prey, which leg comes after which?", > This raised his doubts to such a pitch, > He fell flat into the ditch, > Not knowing how to run. > -Anonymous
