[sheepdog] [sheepdog-users] [ANNOUNCE] Sheepdog stable release v0.9.2

Hitoshi Mitake mitake.hitoshi at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 15:38:59 CEST 2015


At Sun, 7 Jun 2015 19:14:53 +0300,
Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 
> 2015-06-07 11:01 GMT+03:00 Hitoshi Mitake <mitake.hitoshi at gmail.com>:
> >
> > The most important change is disabling VDI locking in a default
> > configuration. You need to enable the feature with formatting a
> > cluster with -l option (e.g. dog cluster format -l).
> 
> 
> Can you specify in which case users must use vdi locking and on which does not?

The locking future is useful for preventing operation miss and bugs in controllers. And iSCSI multipath depends on the locking.

> For example if i use sheepdog for vm disks and runs vps on compute
> nodes, does i need vdi locking?
> And if i enable vdi locking what i miss or what not works after that?

As Fabian pointed, live migration will not work.

Thanks,
Hitoshi

> 
> -- 
> Vasiliy Tolstov,
> e-mail: v.tolstov at selfip.ru


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