[Gluster-devel] 2.0.1

[Vikas Gorur]

Gordan Bobic wrote:

> Doesn't this completely kill the concept of self-heal? Surely, the primary
> ways to detect that a file needs healing is to check it's mtime?

We don't rely on the mtime to do self-heal. Replicate writes a sort of
"journal" entry on each write (in the extended attributes) and based
on that decides which copy of the file is the most recent.

Vikas
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