On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, kefu chai wrote: > on the mon side, i will apply the same approach to MMonJoin and > MonmapMonitor, but with another prefix when putting encoding metadata > into transaction. The MMonJoin is only used when expanding the cluster, i.e. when first adding the new monitor during cluster configuration time. > @joao, IIRC, you were suggesting me to add another paxos service for > this purpose but is it feasible to put this data into MMonJoin and > persist it into the paxos service's storage? > > any suggestion or comments would be appreciated. if no objections, i > will be on it. Instead, I suggest having each mon generate the metadata during startup. Then, somewhere during bootstrap(), compare the stored metadata (they all have a copy of the mon data set) with the actual metadata, and if it varies send a new message (MMonUpdateMetadata?) to the leader requesting a change. Joao, what do you think? sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html