At 11:52 AM 1/14/2009, Gluster Novice wrote: >Sorry to bug you with another newbie question : >With regard to file replication, does Gluster FS repair a damaged >file *only* when someone tries to read it ? yes (or, I believe when the directory containing the missing file is read). >For example, let's say the filesystem is supposed to maintain 3 >copies of the file and one of the copies is lost / removed from the >system for whatever reason, then will the missing copy be created >the first time only when someone reads the file ? if you need to insure syncronicity after a failure, there is a find command in the wiki that will force auto-healing of the whole filesystem find . -exec head -1 () \; > /dev/null (I think that's it, it may not be syntactically valid) >Thanks again for your help! > >_______________________________________________ >Gluster-users mailing list >Gluster-users at gluster.org >http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
