The marker translator takes care of the "upward recursive" xtime setxattr operation whenever a fop triggers a change for file/directory in the gluster volume. So, yes; marking is close to real-time. Thanks, -Venky On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta < gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/6/1 Venky Shankar <yknev.shankar at gmail.com> > >> Whenever an entity is the master gluster volume is changed (writes) the >> marker xlator (feature/marker) updates the xtime extended attribute for >> that particular file and propagates it up the directory hierarchy. This by >> looking at the top level directory (xtime-master > xtime-slave) gsyncd >> knows whether there some change in the tree. Gsyncd then recursively walks >> the tree (only entering sub-directories that satisfy xtime(M) > xtime(S)) >> to get a list of files that have xtime differences b/w master and slave. >> >> Is this in real time? > > -- Astalavista Baby!!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120604/b1a7815c/attachment.htm>
