Re: [Gluster-devel] old files coming back due to old brick.

[Matt Paine]

DeeDee Park wrote:
> I had removed a brick, and then on the live glusterfs removed a 
> directory and all of its subdirectories.
> I checked in the namespace brick and those files were gone.
> I brought back to life an older brick with those files,
> and those files appeared again.
>
> I assumed since the files were not listed in the namespace brick that 
> they should not have
> come back to life.


If you brought back the files (by bringing back an older brick with the
files) then the namespace (being only a cache) will think they are new
files and record their existance in the namespace.

This sounds like expected behaviour to me.

Matt.