[Gluster-users] gfid self-heal in 3.2.5

[Pranith Kumar K]

On 11/22/2011 07:47 AM, Harshavardhana wrote:
>> When the same file has mis-match in gfid self-heal looksup the parent
>> directory and see which one is the source (based on the entry xattrs of the
>> directory), then it will retain the file in that directory removes the other
>> file and does the self-heal of the file.
> So the no clear source can only happen when there are corrupted 'entry
> xattrs' ?or some manual copying in the backend?
>
> -Harsha
either split-brain of the parent directory or no entry pending xattrs on 
the parent directory (i.e. dir on all subvols have all 0s in the xattrs).

Pranith.