[Gluster-users] Replication does not replicate the reference node

[Barry Jaspan]

> Shuffling the order of subvolumes can have
> disastrous consequences.
> Replicate uses the first subvolume as the lock server, and if you shuffle
> the order
> the two clients will use different subvolumes as lock servers.

This would make an excellent addition to the documentation.

> the correct thing to do is generate a list of all files from the second
> subvolume like this:
>
> [root at backend2] # find /export/directory/ > filelist.txt
>
> Then trigger self heal on all the files from the mountpoint:
>
> [root at mountpoint] # cat filelist.txt | xargs stat

So would this. :-)

Thanks,

Barry