[Gluster-devel] inodes and AFR

[Anand Avati]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu at netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 07:15:49PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote:
>> You need not worry as long as the numbers are stable.
>
> I am not sure they are stable when bricks are added: it cause a ESTALL,
> which is recovered on the next attempt, but still, I suspect there is
> something wrong. Are brick addition supposed to run without any hitch
> for clients?

Yes, that was the very intention of making the inode number a
derivation of the GFID instead of the backend inode number, so that
brick addition/replacement does not impact its stability.

Avati