[Gluster-users] frequent split-brain detected, aborting selfheal; background meta-data self-heal failed

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:44:13PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > Attribute "afr.shared-client-0" has a 12 byte value for /data/gluster/lfd/techstudiolfc/pub
> > 
> > Attribute "afr.shared-client-1" has a 12 byte value for /data/gluster/lfd/techstudiolfc/pub
> 
> Perhaps that would be useful, too - it differs on both servers (trusted.afr.shared-client-0 and trusted.afr.shared-client-1).
> What's its meaning? What situations could lead to them being different?

This is something which I raised a few days ago. In the absence of any
up-to-date internals documentation, glusterfs is a "black box".  You have
the source code of course, but it is very sparsely commented and very
difficult to reverse-engineer.