[sheepdog-users] Lock TTL/Timeout

[Fabian Zimmermann]

Hi,

Am 06.07.2015 um 14:46 schrieb Hitoshi Mitake:
> Thanks a lot!

No, I have to thank you! :D

> BTW, how do you think about the idea: when a sheep process dies,
> releasing all VDI locks acquired by qemu processes running on a same
> host with the sheep process. It can be implemented easily.

If I remember correctly, qemu only allows one sheepdog-node as target.
So if this node dies, the qemu-processes are unable to write to
disk/cluster and therefore it should be save to start a new process
handling the vm/vdi on a other host/node.

There is just one problem: What happens if the sheepdog-process gets
restarted while the old qemu-processes are still running?

As far as I understood a running process will *not* check if the lock is
still valid, isn't it? This would lead to corrupt filesystem, because
two qemu-processes are writing to the same vdi.

So, we have to ensure at least on of the following is happening:

* If sheepdog-node dies, fence hostsystem
* If sheepdog-node dies, qemu should terminate themself.

But generally I think an automatic release seems a good idea. On the
other side, maybe it's better located in the fencing-mech of a ha-system
until qemu is terminating/checking lock themselves, isn't it?

Thanks,

 Fabian