The data will not be in "any" state as you mention or please define what you mean by "any". In the worst case you will just loose 5 seconds of data that's all as far as I understand.
Here is another very interesting but long post regarding this topic. Basically it all boils down to this specific
-------- Original Message --------Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Production cluster planningLocal Time: September 30, 2016 12:41 PMUTC Time: September 30, 2016 10:41 AMFrom: lindsay.mathieson@xxxxxxxxxTo: mabi <mabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gluster Users <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>On 29/09/2016 4:32 AM, mabi wrote:> hat's not correct. There is no risk of corruption using> "sync=disabled". In the worst case you just end up with old data but> no corruption. See the following comment from a master of ZFS (Aaron> Toponce):>> https://pthree.org/2013/01/25/glusterfs-linked-list-topology/#comment-227906Your missing what he said - *ZFS* will not be corrupted but the datawritten could be in any state, in this case the gluster filesystem dataand meta data. To have one ndoe in a cluster out of sync with out thecluster knowing would be very bad.--Lindsay Mathieson
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