[sheepdog] [PATCH 0/9] allow new nodes joining before all old sheep are up

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 04:42:03 CEST 2012


On 06/12/2012 11:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series allows to start new sheep when the cluster is in WAIT_FOR_JOIN
> status.  They still don't count towards the number of required old sheep,
> but will join the cluster as soon as old sheep have been seen.
> 

I am not against the patch set per se (it does many more cleanups than
the title advertise), but I just wonder is there any real use case for
adding new sheep when we are recovering the crashed cluster?

Thanks,
Yuan



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