[Gluster-users] gfid files which are not hard links anymore

[Jeff Darcy]

> Most likely reason is that someone deleted these files manually from the
> brick directories. You must never access/modify the data from the brick
> directories directly

Unfortunately, that's exactly what users must do to resolve split-brain.
Until we implement a mechanism for people to do this through the client
mount, we need to make sure users know how to remove files properly
themselves.  Here are a couple of relevant blog posts.

http://www.gluster.org/2012/07/fixing-split-brain-with-glusterfs-3-3/
http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-split-brain-recovery-made-easy/

There are also some efforts under way that should make this better in the
future.

http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/pbspbr
http://www.gluster.org/2012/06/healing-split-brain/
http://review.gluster.org/#/c/4132/