On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Anand Avati <avati at gluster.org> wrote: > This is a known behavior - when a server goes down, files can witness a > changed mtime (but I don't think that is what the original post was about). Well, now I know about it too. Thanks for the discussion. > We could provide a new feature/enhancement to keep mtimes in sync with > explicit utimes() call per-write() - but that might be too expensive for > most users. I would think this is a bug, but then again it depends on the application. For some users it isn't, for others it might be. Maybe it shouldn't be a bug, but at least a configurable mount option or gluster volume option. Not high on my wishlist though. Thanks for starting this thread Jay. Cheers! James