[Drbd-dev] gen_counts and primary --human

[Philipp Reisner]

On Monday 23 August 2004 16:28, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > Yet an other deficiency:
> > we still do not handle the gencounts correctly in this situation:
> >
> >   S --- S
> >   P --- S  drbdsetup primary --human
> >    now, N1 increments its human cnt, N2 only its connection count after
> >    failure of N1, N2 will take over, maybe be primary for a whole week.
> >    then N1 comes back, has the higher human count, and will
> >    either [see above] (if N2 still is Primary)
> >    or wipe out a week worth of changes (if N2 was demoted to Secondary
> >    meanwhile).
> >
> >    Oops :-(
>
> I'd suggest to ignore the --human flag when connected.
> It does not make sense in the connected case.
>

Right. We should fix that rather sooner than later.

-Philipp
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