[Gluster-users] split-brain recovery automation, any plans?

[Ravishankar N]

On 07/11/2016 01:24 PM, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> We just got split-brain during update to 3.7.13 ;-)
>
> This was our first time we hit this, and we found that it is not easy 
> to follow and change xattrs metadata.
> So, could you tell me, are there any plans to simplify this?
> Let's say, add tool to choose preferred copy (brick) to heal others 
> from and, thus, avoid all this direct xattr manipulations?

Commands are already available to resolve split-brains from the gluster 
command line or from the fuse mount too. 
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-specs/blob/master/done/Features/heal-info-and-split-brain-resolution.md 
is a bit dated but has some examples.

-Ravi

>
> Thank you!
>
> btw, 3.7.13 works ok with qemu gfapi on centos7 :-)
>
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