[Gluster-users] 2.0.3

[Vikas Gorur]

----- "Stephan von Krawczynski" <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> this bug is _not_ fixed in 2.0.4. We just tried and the problem stays
> the same.
> All you have to do to reproduce is:
> - take 2 servers with replicate
> - copy data (with directories) onto first servers glusterfs exported
> dir.
> - do ls -lR on client, self healing on second server starts.
> - when self-healing is done look at second servers exported dir.
> find all healed directories with current timestamp from healing and
> not with timestamp from original on first server.

If you look closely, you'll see that the mtime is consistent, while the atime
and ctime might have changed. This is because:

* atime -- This is the access time. This will change with every access ("ls" or read),
  and hence even though it is synchronized during self-heal, it will obviously change
  the next time you do any access operation.

* ctime -- This is the inode change time. This is entirely under the control of the kernel
  and there is no system call in Unix that allows us to change it. Hence we cannot synchronize
  this.

There was indeed a bug in the previous versions which would leave mtime inconsistent too, and
that has been fixed.

Vikas