[Gluster-users] about new Features/outcast

[Pranith Kumar Karampuri]

hi,
     I am one of the people responsible for this feature. The feature is 
still in design phase. Nothing concrete yet. I will send out a mail once 
we are certain of the design.

Pranith
On 08/07/2014 09:21 AM, hwh at sangfor.com wrote:
> hi :
>
> who have more detail info about outcast, eg. design document. can send 
> to me ?thank you
>
>
>
>   Features/outcast
>
> < Features 
> <http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features>
>
>
>     Feature
>
> This feature provides a way of preventing split-brains in time.
>
>
>     Summary
>
> At the moment there is no way of marking a brick as stale copy, 
> because of this if a file is modified when the source brick is down 
> the file goes into split-brain. This feature should give the 
> functionality where a file can be marked as outcast. Modifications on 
> the file are considered to be successful only if it succeeds on at 
> least one good copy. If the operation succeeds only on outcast files 
> then the operation is treated as failure.
>
> Note: Split-brains due to network-partition can still happen.
>
>
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