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

[Patrick Caulfield]

Alain Moulle wrote:
>>>>> 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 ?

This bugzilla has the patch and pointers to the CVS changes that implement the
feature.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219588


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Patrick

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