Re: Idea to make replication a bit cleaner

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Hi German,

you are right that IPA is on the safe side, they maintain the last used replicaID and when creating a server instance only a higher replicaid is used, also when a server is removed, the removal triggers a cleanallruv, either from the script or by the topology plugin (>4.3).
This is because in IPA all server instance creation and removal is managed by IPA cammands.

This framework is not there by default for "admion managed" DS deployments, and that's what William wants to get improved.

William,
I'm not sure that the scenario you describe is really so bad as you think. If  a server is removed and the RID is not cleaned, it's component remains in the RUV, but this is just an overhead in examining ruvs, but should not block replication to continue. If a new server with the old, removed replicaID is installed, the ruv component should be reused, the URL replaced, and replication continue as if there haven't been updates for this replica ID for a long time. I'm saying "should", since there mioght be some cases where the changelog was purged and an anchor csn for the old/new replicaid cannot be found. So we need to do some tests and it would be good to make this safe.
One option would be to maintain already used replicaids, so at the init of a new server there could not only be a check for the same database generation, but also for a valid RUV
I think it is difficult to find a trigger for an automated cleanallruv, we would have to maintain something like a topology view of the deployment, like the topology plugin in IPA does

But it is definitely worth to think about solutions for thi sproblem

Ludwig


On 06/13/2016 10:21 AM, German Parente wrote:
Hi William,

I think this case is covered in IPA. I have never seen a new replica added with the same former ID of an old one.

The former ruvs are not cleaned automatically, though, in current versions and it's not a very severe issue now. There are also ipa commands to list and clean the ruvs.

I have also heard or read that in the dev versions (not still delivered), the cleaning is automatic, as you are proposing.

Thanks a lot.

regards,

German.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 7:21 AM, William Brown <wibrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

I was discussing with some staff here in BNE about replication.

It seems a common case is that admins with 2 or 3 servers in MMR (both DS and IPA) will do this:

* Setup all three masters A, B, C (replica id 1,2,3 respectively)
* Run them for a while in replication
* Remove C from replication
* Delete data, change the system
* Re-add C with the same replica id.

Supposedly this can cause duplicate RUV entries for id 3 in masters A and B. Of course, this means that replication has all
kinds of insane issues at this point ....


On one hand, this is the admins fault. But on the other, we should handle this. Consider an admin who re-uses an IPA replica
setup file, without running CLEANALLRUV

So, an have some idea for this. Any change to a replication agreement, should trigger a CLEANALLRUV, before we start the
agreement. This means on our local master we have removed the bad RUV first, then we can add the RUV of the newly added master
when needed .... 

What do you think? I think that we must handle this better, and it should be a non-issue to admins.


We can't prevent an admin from intentionally adding duplicate ID's to the topology though. So making it so that the ID's are not
admin controlled would prevent this, but I haven't any good ideas about this  (yet)




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Sincerely,

William Brown
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Brisbane


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