----- "Ville Tuulos" <tuulos at gmail.com> wrote: > Not a single file is synced to the recovered node but I can read the > files ok from other replicas. However, if I create the missing > directories manually in the data directory, the files get synced > correctly. > > A nasty implication of this bug is that when I create a new file in > the directory hierarchy, its replication fails on the recovered node > due to the missing directories and I end up getting fewer replicas of > the file than what I have specified in the volume config. The failure > happens silently as I can still read the file from other replicas, so > I might silently lose all my replicas without any sign until the last > replica fails. > > Is this a known issue and are there any workarounds? Did you delete and re-create the data directory for the first subvolume? If so, this is what might be happening in your case: http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/Understanding_AFR_Translator#Self-heal_of_a_file_that_does_not_exist_on_the_first_subvolume Vikas -- Engineer - http://gluster.com/ A: Because it messes up the way people read text. Q: Why is a top-posting such a bad thing? --