1. A method comprising: identifying, by a first server, a second server that is connecting to a cluster of servers in a file system; locating, by the first server, a file in a replication directory hierarchy in the second server, wherein the file has not been accessed by a client application since the second server connecting to the cluster of servers; determining, prior to the file being accessed by the client application, that the file on the second server comprises stale data; and updating the stale data in the file on the second server with current data.