On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Keith Freedman <freedman at freeformit.com>wrote: > At 12:28 PM 9/18/2008, KwangErn Liew wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Keith Freedman > ><<mailto:freedman at freeformit.com>freedman at freeformit.com> wrote: > >I think gluster should, if a file doesn't have extended attributes > >one one machine and does on the other, the one without attributes > >should be overwritte with the other version and then given > >attributes. but I think this may be so as to preserve files that > >aren't gluster manged, but I've no idea the thought process on that. > > > > > > From what I observe in 1.4pre5, if your filesystem doesn't support > > extended attributes, it'll fail to start. > > yes, but I'm thining about when it does support extended attributes > and files end up in there that don't have them. (i.e. someone > accidentally copied over a file using the underlying filesystem > directly--gluster should recognize it and if there's a version in the > gluster world with attributes it takes precidence, otherwise, it adds > the extended attributes and brings the file into the gluster world. > Ah I see, AFAIK, GlusterFS does this automatically even in 1.3.x or are you experiencing the opposite? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20080919/86370eb4/attachment.htm
