[Linux-cluster] Back to the problem of unicity of cluster_id

Alain Moulle Alain.Moulle at bull.net
Thu May 10 09:20:01 UTC 2007


>>>>Hi
>>>>> About the problem of unicity of cluster_id generated by cnxman (see a
>>>>> copy of my old email on the ML just below), is there something fixed
>>>>> in new versions (U5?) ? or is there a possibility to set a cluster_id
>>>>> directly in cluster.conf instead of the cluster_name ?

>Yes U5 has a
><cman cluster_id="x"/>
>attribute.
>I'm not changing the generation algorithm as it would break upgrades, and anyway
>it's impossible to guarantee uniqueness of a 16 bit number generated from a <=15
>character string - someone will always hit a duplicate!
Hi
Thanks but ...
is there somewhere a patch that I could try to apply on U4 ?
Or where could I got the sources to analyse the modifications ?

Thanks
Alain Moullé





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