[Gluster-devel] Gluster Recovery

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:01:55AM -0700, Anand Avati wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Let's continue with this scenario: what would happen if one of the clients
> > changed hello.c again, and the failed server came up again after some
> > extended repair period?
> > 
> > What exactly would be the criteria for file resync? (Imagine one of the
> > copies got corrupted during fsck, while still carrying identical metadata
> > information)
> 
> a server which had 'gone down' is not put in operation until it
> undergoes an FSCK. the one with the latest mtime is the 'freshest'
> copy. 

A suggestion for future entensions: check (md5 or the like) all copies of the
same logical file for identity

S

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