[Gluster-devel] Network Outage - Expected Behaviour?

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Thu Jul 9 14:27:36 UTC 2009

What is the expected behaviour of gluster client when servers disappear
(due to a short network outage) and re-appear? For example, say there are
servers A and B, and client C. A goes away (e.g. pull the network cable).
Timeout occurs, client continues using B. A returns without glusterfsd
being restarted or the client glusterfs being restarted.

Does the client periodically re-scan for presence of servers that dropped
out? Or does the client have to be restarted to notice that a server has

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