thank you for the info. just a follow up question. in case the hard disk fail e.g. on server2, but i have a snapshot of that disk from a day before. if i re-enable it on the gluster again, will it still recover the lost files that is stilll on the hard disk of server1 ? On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Whit Blauvelt <whit.gluster at transpect.com> wrote: > Yes, it's correct behavior. Only writes and edits through the gluster mount > are handled immediately by gluster. > > Whit > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:30:03AM +0800, nhadie ramos wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am just starting to do some tests on gluster, i have 2 servers which >> i setup as replicate: >> >> >> server1: >> >> /dev/md0 mounted on /myharddisk >> >> created a gluster volume called testvolume >> mounted the glustervolume as /testgluster >> txtfile.txt on /myharddisk >> >> server2: >> >> /dev/md0 mounted on /myharddsik >> created a gluster volume called testvolume >> mounted the glustervolume as /testgluster >> txtfile.txt on /myharddsik >> >> editedt txtfile.txt on server1:/testgluster changes took effect on >> server1:/testgluster, server2:/testgluster and serv2:/myharddisk >> (expected result) >> edited txtfile.txt on server1:/myharddsik changes did not replicate on >> server1:/testgluster and server2:/testgluster unitl i did a self-heal >> but server2:/myharddisk did not update, unless i delete the existing >> file on it. >> >> Is this the correct behavior? Thanks in advance! (sorry if the email >> confuses you) >> >> Regards, >> Ron >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >