[Linux-ha-dev] issues I'm working on at the moment

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 3/13/07, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.de> wrote:
> On 2007-03-13T14:26:56, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal at sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > Heartbeat keeps a backup copy of /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/cib.xml but
> > if the primary copy is filled with zeros it doesn't use the backup!
>
> Good point.
>
> > I also believe that given the XFS issue one backup copy is not
> > enough and that we should have multiple backups so that if there is
> > more than one change made to cib.xml in the 30 seconds before the
> > reboot there will still be a good copy after the reboot. As the
> > files in question are small there is no reason why we couldn't have
> > 20 backup copies.
>
> That shouldn't happen. We use fsync() on the file, so the backup copy is
> always intact (it's just that the in-flight transaction might get hit).
> XFS surely doesn't lie about fsync() ;-)
>
> Anyway, your bug reports are great. Could you please file them in our
> bugzilla?

actually i'd prefer that he keep reading to the end of the email
threads and only log bugs for the ones that aren't already fixed