[Openais] CKPT: bug, checkpoints without sections not synchronized

Steven Dake sdake at redhat.com
Wed Sep 6 06:11:42 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 13:27 +0200, Hans Feldt wrote:
>  From ckpt.c:
> 
> > 	/*
> > 	 * ALGORITHM :
> > 	 * 1.) extract the checkpoint if there.
> > 	 * 2.) If there is a checkpoint then there has to be a section
> > 	 * 3.) If the recovery_section_send_flag was not set in the previous
> > 	 *		invocation that means we have to send out a sync_msg before
> > 	 *		we send out the sections
> > 	 * 4.) Set the recovery_section_send_flag and send the sections.
> > 	 */
> 
> Number 2 is wrong. There can be checkpoints without sections and they 
> should be synced.
> 
> I did not want to create a patch for this problem since it can be solved 
> in different ways and the problem is more complicated than previous ckpt 
> patches.
> 
> Regards,
> Hans
> 

Hans yes please let me work on this I have a fairly deep understanding
of the problem as it has showed up during some internal testing for Red
Hat Cluster Suite.

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