[Gluster-devel] AFR conservative merge portability

Emmanuel Dreyfus manu at netbsd.org
Thu Dec 18 07:58:08 UTC 2014


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 03:21:24PM -0500, Jeff Darcy wrote:
> Is there *any* case, not even necessarily involving conservative merge,
> where it would be harmful to propagate the latest ctime/mtime for any
> replica of a directory?

In case of conservative merge, the problem vanish on its own anyway:
adding entries updates parent directory ctime/mtime and the reported
split brain does not exists anymore.

Here is a first attempt, please comment:
http://review.gluster.org/9291

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org


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