On 05/03/2012 03:15 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: > Hi, > I eventually installed three Debian unstable machines, so I could > install the GlusterFS 3.3 beta3. > > I have a question about the self-heal daemon. > > I'm trying to get a volume which is replicated, with two bricks. > > I started up the volume, wrote some data, then killed one machine, and > then wrote more data to a few folders from the client machine. > Then I restarted the second brick server. > > At this point, the second server seemed to "self-heal" enough that it > registered the new directories, but all the files inside were > zero-length. > > I then ran the command: > gluster volume heal testvol > > After I ran that, there was some activity, and now all the files were > populated. > > > Was that supposed to happen automatically, eventually, or am I missing > something about how the self-heal daemon works? > The self-heal daemon triggers a crawl once every 600 seconds. If you wait out that interval, you should be able to see self-heals happening automatically. Else you can trigger it explicitly the way you did. Regards, Vijay
