= GeoSync - Path based GlusterFS Geo-replication

Current GlusterFS Geo-replication is GFID based, that means the file in Secondary site will have same GFID of the file exists in Primary Volume. This approach introduces the following issues.

Two Step operations Entry operations and data sync operations are different, Entry operations are done using RPC and then data synced using rsync.
Rsync --inplace option Normally rsync creates a temporary file and then it renames to final file name to prevent corruption and also for data availability for reading. But creating new file means changing the GFID. So existing Geo-replication uses --inplace option to prevent the same.
Multiple Revisions If a file is created, deleted and then created again(Example: Log rotate), then same steps should be replayed on Secondary state to get the same GFID.
No support for non GlusterFS targets Because of the GFID dependency, Geo-replication can't be setup for non GlusterFS volume targets.

== Design

TODO

== Usage

Create the config file as

[source,yaml]

filename: config.yaml

source_dir: /mnt/gvol1 target: server1.kadalu:/mnt/gvol2 crawl_dir: /bricks/gvol1/brick1/brick stime_xattr: 53d458aa-075c-4a3c-8d69-62ac4802d41b.stime

Where

source_dir is path of Primary Volume mount
target is the hostname and target directory details. <secondary-node>:<secondary-volume-mount> format
crawl_dir is the Brick root from where Crawl is done.
stime_xattr is the name of the xattr to be maintained to record the synced time. Ideally <secondary-vol-id>.stime

Now run the Geosync,