[PATCH] CTDB - add new event daemon
Martin Schwenke
martin at meltin.net
Thu Jul 5 03:36:27 UTC 2018
On 5 July 2018 12:02:21 pm Amitay Isaacs via samba-technical
<samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> Martin and I have been preparing for this for a long time. This is
> the starting point for restructure of ctdb daemon by splitting various
> daemons. The first one is event daemon. This replaces the current
> event daemon. There are a couple of significant changes to the new
> event daemon design.
>
> * Support multiple components
>
> Many of the new daemons will need to run events. Instead of adding
> code to run events in every daemon, we now have a single event daemon
> that will run events for all daemons. Currently it runs events only
> in "legacy" component. The other main advantage of new eventd will be
> to avoid running the rest of the daemons as root. Only event daemon
> needs to run as root since it should be able to start/stop services,
> modify network configuration etc.
>
> * A template for writing daemons and client tools
>
> Most of the daemons/client tools will have a standard pattern and
> event daemon code tries to establish that pattern. This makes writing
> new daemons and client tools easy and less error-prone. Each daemon
> will be added in it's own separate directory to improve
> maintainability.
>
> Since the patch set is large, it's not attached. The patches are in
> my ctdb-eventd branch.
>
> https://git.samba.org/?p=amitay/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ctdb-eventd
>
> The first few patches introduce the new eventd (protocol, daemon,
> client library, tool and tests). The next step is to replace the
> existing eventd code. The patches that start integrating new eventd,
> break the CTDB daemon operation. It's possible to completely switch
> over from old eventd to new eventd in a single patch, but that patch
> will be too large and difficult to comprehend. Instead, new eventd is
> introduced step-by-step to keep patches simple but at the cost of
> broken ctdb daemon till the integration is complete.
>
> Please review and push.
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
Please push... 😀
peace & happiness,
martin
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