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From: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
To: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] gen_counts and primary --human
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:42:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408251142.49511.philipp.reisner@linbit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LytGKyglmnZR/Bdz2MpV2To=lge@web.de>

On Monday 23 August 2004 16:28, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > Yet an other deficiency:
> > we still do not handle the gencounts correctly in this situation:
> >
> >   S --- S
> >   P --- S  drbdsetup primary --human
> >    now, N1 increments its human cnt, N2 only its connection count after
> >    failure of N1, N2 will take over, maybe be primary for a whole week.
> >    then N1 comes back, has the higher human count, and will
> >    either [see above] (if N2 still is Primary)
> >    or wipe out a week worth of changes (if N2 was demoted to Secondary
> >    meanwhile).
> >
> >    Oops :-(
>
> I'd suggest to ignore the --human flag when connected.
> It does not make sense in the connected case.
>

Right. We should fix that rather sooner than later.

-Philipp
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-25  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040819110202.GO9601@marowsky-bree.de>
     [not found] ` <20040819113205.GP9601@marowsky-bree.de>
     [not found]   ` <R+ahoCHARbsLOMKIahWH0/Q=lge@web.de>
2004-08-20 12:52     ` [Drbd-dev] Re: drbd Frage zu secondary vs primary; drbddisk status problem Philipp Reisner
2004-08-20 13:32       ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-08-23 14:28         ` [Drbd-dev] gen_counts and primary --human Lars Ellenberg
2004-08-23 21:57           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-08-25  9:42           ` Philipp Reisner [this message]
2004-08-23 21:56         ` [Drbd-dev] Re: drbd Frage zu secondary vs primary; drbddisk status problem Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-08-25  9:42         ` Philipp Reisner
2004-08-25 10:28           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-08-25 11:30             ` Philipp Reisner
2004-08-25 13:38           ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-04  9:48         ` [Drbd-dev] Another drbd race Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-04 10:00           ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-04 10:18             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-04 10:43               ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-04 10:51                 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-07  9:39             ` Philipp Reisner
2004-09-07 10:13               ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-07 11:32                 ` Philipp Reisner
2004-09-07 12:05                   ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-07 12:12                     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-07 12:06                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-07 12:19                 ` Philipp Reisner
2004-09-07 12:28                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-07 12:47                     ` Philipp Reisner
2004-09-08 11:20                       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-08 11:31                         ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-08 15:11                           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-09-08 15:22                             ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-09-08 11:33                         ` Philipp Reisner
2004-09-07 15:55                   ` Lars Ellenberg
2004-08-20 14:10       ` [Drbd-dev] Re: drbd Frage zu secondary vs primary; drbddisk status problem Helmut Wollmersdorfer
2004-08-23 22:01       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree

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