[Gluster-users] question about replicate volume

[Ravishankar N]

On 02/24/2016 09:30 AM, Joe Julian wrote:
>> After step 6 volume have converted to replicate volume. So if you 
>> create file from mount point it will replicate these file to all 
>> replica set. In your case after step 6 it will replicate only 
>> file(d,e,f) because before step 6 volume was distributed. For 
>> replicating all the file (before step 6) you need to run #gluster 
>> volume heal <volname> full. After executing this command file in both 
>> replica set should be same.
>
> Did that change? It used to trigger the heal crawl automatically when 
> you changed the replica count.
You  needed to manually run full heal for both add-brick and 
replace-brick scenarios even in afr-v1. In afr-v2 there  is a bug (BZ 
1112158)  in heal-full but Anuradha's patches are aimed at doing away 
with running full heal in both these scenarios as noted in the last 2 
comments of the BZ.
>
>> Thanks,