[Gluster-devel] Proposal to change locking in data-self-heal

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 09:58:46 -0400
Jeff Darcy <jdarcy at redhat.com> wrote:

> [...]
> That's actually how it used to work, which led to many complaints from users 
> who would see stalls accessing large files (most often VM images) over GigE 
> while self-heal was in progress.  Many considered it a show-stopper, and the 
> current "granular self-heal" approach was implemented to address it.  I'm not 
> sure whether the old behavior is still available as an option.  If not (which 
> is what I suspect) then you're correct that it might be worth considering as an 
> enhancement.

See it as a corner case of a configurable option like:

self-heal-chunksize = X
128k < X < (unsigned)-1 (meaning all bits 1, don't know how many you have
here :-)

-- 
Regards,
Stephan