over-replicated files / fsck behavior

[Brandon Ooi]

Hi,

Again, love mogile, it's the cheap and robust alternative to pricey 
storage engines (EMC). I recently bumped my mindevcount from 2 to 3 and 
things seemed to go haywire. This may be related to another post about 
overreplicated files.

I have two tracker machines each with replicate_jobs 5. Things seemed to 
be okay at a mindevcount of 2, but once at 3 lots of files (maybe 25k) 
get replicated more than 3 times (up to 10 times!). I've restarted my 
trackers with only 1 replicate_job total, sacrificing the redundancy. 
This seemed to bring it under control.

My question is, what is the correct setup to prevent this from happening 
and keep the system redundant.

Also, what is the behavior of fsck? Documentation is a bit lacking in 
this area and I would love to help fill in those blanks but I don't 
really know. Does it fix this kind of damage? Will it bump the number of 
replicas of old files from 2 to 3?