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Re: [Gluster-devel] 2.0.1
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Vikas Gorur |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] 2.0.1 |
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Fri, 15 May 2009 14:01:49 +0530 |
Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Doesn't this completely kill the concept of self-heal? Surely, the primary
> ways to detect that a file needs healing is to check it's mtime?
We don't rely on the mtime to do self-heal. Replicate writes a sort of
"journal" entry on each write (in the extended attributes) and based
on that decides which copy of the file is the most recent.
Vikas
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