On 05/03/2012 03:44 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > As a follow-up question to that: does this all apply to gluster 3.2.4 > also? And if you manually trigger a self-heal (via doing a find + > stat as some of us were originally trained) multiple times within a 10 > minute window, will that cause a problem? > > This does not apply to gluster 3.2.4. Manually triggering a self-heal multiple times should not cause a problem. If you notice any aberration, please do let us know. ---- Vijay