[sheepdog] [PATCH] trivial: misc fixes of comments

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Wed May 8 07:18:59 CEST 2013


On 05/08/2013 01:12 PM, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> No. The node simply leaves from the cluster. But it doesn't mean the
> node always dies. The node keeps connection to a cluster manager can
> resend join request again.
> 
> The leaved sheep marks itself as a node with 0 vnodes in
> sd_leave_handler() (I'm not sure it is really required). But the node
> doesn't become a gateway node. Because other nodes increment their
> epoch and exclude the node from their views.

This is just how we handle EIO. From the users perspective, the node can
still work as a gateway to transmit requests and it still has the
knowledge of topology of cluster.

Thanks,
Yuan



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