CTDB - the 'Mainz' plan for clustered Samba

[simo]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 13:29 -0400, Jim McDonough wrote:
> On 10/1/06, simo <idra at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > So what happen if you add or remove a node?
> >
> This is a key statement:
> "The table will be read only at startup, and when a transmission error or
> error return from the CTDB protocol indicates that the local copy of the
> node mapping may be out of date."
> 
> Check the section on "CTDB Recovery" - adding or removing a node is the same
> as recovering from a dead node.  The recovery master will have to direct
> this, but it will need to know how many nodes currently exist.

Ok, but at all effects what this will mean is that the LMASTER for most
of the keys will change, is this a desirable effect?

Simo.

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