[Drbd-dev] Problems with code to disallow connection when peer has mismatched UUID

[Philipp Reisner]

Am Montag 15 September 2008 16:40:34 schrieb Graham, Simon:
> Attached is a proposed patch to address this problem that does the
> following:
>
> 1. When connection is lost, a new UUID is not created on the primary if
> the local disk is inconsistent
> 2. Allow connection to be established if local disk is inconsistent even
> if the remote is using
>    a different UUID - our data is useless and cannot have been changed
> anyway. The following handshake
>    will cause the appropriate resync.
>
> Although only one of these is actually required to fix my problem, I
> thought it was better to be consistent
> and change both.
>

Hi Simon,

You patch is correct, and quite similar to that commit. The second
hunk is missing since a node in such an state can not get promoted
to primary anyways.

commit a20ecb2e221a3a0e565ecdbb9ac5239b54dca395
Author: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 24 14:06:41 2008 +0200

    Fixed the "exposed data" logic in case a sync target primary lost the 
network connection

    closes #98

-Phil
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