[Gluster-devel] List of files on a failed glusterfsd node

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Greeting, Majied!  Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:05:18PM -0400, majied.najjar wrote: 

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question that I have not been able to resolve on my own.
> 
> Say I have a group of servers running glusterfsd which serve files to
> a frontend glusterfs server.  I am not using AFR and using AFR is not
> an option.  If one of the backend glusterfsd servers should go down
> and lose all of it's data, is it possible to generate a list of files
> that are no longer available (being located on the "down'd" glusterfsd
> server) in a simple way?

If you have namespace brick on another server, you can use that info
for list of missed files.
For example, in one server you can store data brick #1 and namespace #2,
another server will have data brick #2 and namespace #1.

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 Anton P. Linevich