[sheepdog-users] Gateway only triggers recovery

[Liu Yuan]

On 06/14/2013 09:51 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Hi, I added a node ad gateway only
>   sheep -h /mnt/sheep/dsk01
> 
> I noticed it triggered the cluster ad if it was a "normal" node
> 
> # collie node recovery
> Nodes In Recovery:
>   Id   Host:Port         V-Nodes       Zone
>    0   192.168.6.41:7000      64  688302272
>    1   192.168.6.42:7000      64  705079488
>    3   192.168.6.44:7000      64  738633920
> 
> I think it should not do that, or is there a specific reason?
> 

The reason is for code simplicity. But indeed we shouldn't generate a
recovery event for gateway node joining.

> 
> 
> PS:
> another thing I find strange is:
> 
> # collie node info
> Id      Size    Used    Avail   Use%
>  0      2.3 TB  1.5 TB  814 GB   64%
>  1      2.3 TB  1.3 TB  995 GB   56%
>  2      0.0 MB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB    0%
>  3      2.3 TB  1.3 TB  1023 GB  55%
> Total   6.8 TB  4.0 TB  2.8 TB   59%
> 
> Why is is using id 2?
> Before id 2 was used by the disk that now is id 3.

The node index is recalculated every time and the value depend its
binary string of IP.

Thanks,
Yuan