Pena, Francisco Javier wrote: > Hello everyone, > > While checking some strange cman startup behavior (it always assigns 1 vote to each cluster node, no matter what I set in the cluster.conf file), I have spent some time digging through the cluster code to understand how it manages online reconfigurations. I think that's a bug introduced in U4 - it's fixed in U5. > In the Red Hat docs (and also at the RH436 course) we are told that the following command sequence is required to update the cluster config: > > - ccs_tool update /etc/cluster/cluster.conf > - cman_tool version -r <new version> > > However, following the cman_tool code down to the kernel module part, all it does is to update the internal config_version variable to be the new version on all nodes. From the cman-kernel source (RHEL4 U4 SRPMS), file membership.c: > > static int do_process_reconfig(struct msghdr *msg, char *buf, int len) > { > ... > > case RECONFIG_PARAM_CONFIG_VERSION: > config_version = val; > break; > ... > } > > No configuration is reread, so it does not matter what you change in the configuration file, CMAN will never know about it until it is restarted. Similarly, I found out that qdiskd never updates the configuration, in fact it is listed as TODO ( 2) Poll ccsd for configuration changes. ). > > It looks like the RHEL5 branch of the CMAN code does reread the configuration (calling read_ccs_nodes), so any change is updated. The qdisk code still shows the ccsd poll in the TODO list. > > So, straight to the questions: are there any plans to change the RHEL4 code to make CMAN and qdisk get the configuration changes without needing to restart? Should I file a bugzilla against this? > No, there are no plans to change this behaviour in RHEL4. if you want to change the votes of a node you will need to use cman_tool votes -v<n> -- patrick -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster