[Gluster-users] How accurate is heal statistics heal-count?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 18/04/2016 6:55 AM, Joe Julian wrote:
> All the steps necessary to marking something as needing healed are 
> performed for every write (or metadata change). If you happen to check 
> in the middle of that transaction, you'll see a heal pending.


Ok, have been off walking the dogs and had time to mediate on this. 
Would it be accurate to summerise as this?

- statics heal-count shows the count of files *actually needing healing*

- heal info shows the list of files with uncommitted writes across the 
bricks that would need heals *if* a node went down before the write was 
committed.
   * additionally it lists files being healed if a heal is in process

* writes can be data and metadata.

So its perfectly ok to see files being listed by heal info on a busy 
cluster, so long as they aren't marked as a heal in progress.

thanks,

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Lindsay Mathieson