Re: [Gluster-users] Self healing metadata info

2013-01-29 Thread Patric Uebele
Hi Stephan, unfortunately (or luckily ;-) I'm not an fs-programmer, but I fully understand your point. Let me discuss it internally. Best regards, Patric On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 11:01 +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Hi Patric, > > your paper shows clearly you are infected by the fs-prog

Re: [Gluster-users] Self healing metadata info

2013-01-25 Thread Java Pro
Patric, Thank you very much. I will do some testing on the index file, the document is very helpful to understand the technique and the robustness of self healing. JPro On Friday, January 25, 2013, Patric Uebele wrote: > Hi JPro, > > perhaps the attached doc does explain it a bit. > > Best reg

Re: [Gluster-users] Self healing metadata info

2013-01-25 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
Hi Patric, your paper shows clearly you are infected by the fs-programmer-virus :-) Noone else would give you tags/gfids/inode nums of a file inside a logfile instead of the full true filename, simply because looking at the logfile days/months/years later you know exactly nothing about the files a

[Gluster-users] Self healing metadata info

2013-01-24 Thread Java Pro
Hi, If a brick is down and comes back up later, how does Glusterfs know which files in this brick need to be 'self-healed'? Since the metadata of whether to 'heal' is stored as an xattr in a replica on *other* bricks. Does Glusterfs scan these files on the other bricks to see if one is "accusing"