[Gluster-devel] glusterfs_sexattr on directory at distributed

Amar Tumballi amar at gluster.com
Mon Mar 22 08:57:54 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Dongmin Yu <min at hostway.co.kr> wrote:

>  I also test glusterfs_sexattr on directory at 3.0.3. It still writes
> attributes on one of distributed volume.
>
>
> Yes, thats the expected behavior. As an user/admin, you don't have to go
through the backend behavior of GlusterFS. 'cluster/distribute' module takes
care of writing extended attribute on the hashed directory, and will return
the proper xattr, when done over the mountpoint.

Let us know why do you think sending setxattr on all the backend directories
is necessary.

_Amar
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