[Gluster-devel] Automated split-brain resolution

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

On 08/09/2014 12:48 AM, Harshavardhana wrote:
>> Wait, directories *are* supposed to automatically heal from split-brain?
>> Guess I need to file a bug report. That doesn't happen. All the metadata and
>> gfid can be the same, but since the trusted.afr are both dirty, it'll stay
>> split-brain forever.
> Conservative merge happens, but 'directories' are not cleared off
> their extended attributes so you might see
> messages in logs AFAIK.
they are not cleared off only when there are file-name split-brains. 
i.e. filename with different gfid or different file-type (i.e. one is 
dir another is file etc)

Pranith