[Gluster-devel] Re: AFR self-healing, a better command line?

[Brandon Lamb]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Brandon Lamb <brandonlamb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So I have seen this suggested as the way to trigger self-heal
>
> find /mnt/webcluster2 -depth -type f -exec head -n 1 {} \; >/dev/null
>
> I am using fedora 8. according to the man pages -n 1 will tell head to
> print the first line of every file.
>
> There is also the -c flag
>
> find /mnt/webcluster2 -depth -type f -exec head -c 1 {} \; >/dev/null
>
> Which the man page says will print the first 1 byte(s) of every file.
>
> Would the -c 1 be better/more efficient than -n 1. If my understanding
> is correct, it would only have to read the first byte instead of the
> first line.
>
> ?
>
> Brandon

Oops, one correction, I added the -depth my self, so minus that part
of the command line.