----- "Hiren Joshi" <josh at moonfruit.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a setup with 2 nodes mirrored, if I simulate a disk crash (take > a > server node out, clear the data and restart it) on the first stat of > files on the client, it appears to be self healing but during this > time > (it's syncing about 2G) the mount point becomes unusable..... is this > expected behaviour? Self heal happens whenever a directory or a file is accessed for the first time. While a file is being self-healed, all other operations on it will be blocked. So if a 2GB file is being healed, then accesses on that file will be blocked until self-heal completes. You might see that "ls" done on the mountpoint is blocked until self heal of _all_ files in the directory completes. This is because in most cases ls will be aliased to 'ls --color', which causes ls to do a 'stat' on each file in the directory, thus triggering their self-heal. Self-healing in the background is in the roadmap.
