[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0032] Remove dangling RUVs even if replicas are offline

[Stanislav Laznicka]

On 05/19/2016 08:52 AM, Ludwig Krispenz wrote:
>
> On 05/19/2016 08:02 AM, Stanislav Laznicka wrote:
>> On 05/18/2016 04:44 PM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>>> On 05/18/2016 04:36 PM, Stanislav Laznicka wrote:
>>>> There's no ticket for this patch but as there was a fix to 389-ds
>>>> mentioned in https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5396, the TODO
>>>> section in clean_dangling_ruvs could be removed.
>>>>
>>> What about using
>>>    'replica-force-cleaning':'yes',
>>>
>>> every time?
>>>
>>> Is there a drawback which we would like to avoid?
>>>
>> The DS website mentions two possible risks
>> - possible loss of changes on deleted replica should these have not 
>> been reflected to some other replicas
> this is a theoretical concern that there might be changes from the 
> replica to be removed which are not yet on all servers, but to me the 
> problem that cleaning ruvs hangs because replicas cannot be reached is 
> the worse scenario.
>> - if some offline replica comes back online, it may re-pollute the 
>> RUVs back
>>
>> I'm not sure of the probability of the second scenario, in my rather 
>> simple environment the re-pollution did not happen.
> there have been fixes in 389-ds to prevent the repollution, so it 
> should no longer happen.
>
Thank you, Ludwig. It seems reasonable to have the option set to 'yes' 
all the time, then.
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