[Pulp-list] Pulp 0.267: Triggering multiple simultaneous sync jobs on a v2 repo

[Jay Dobies]

On 04/11/2012 08:22 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> (I know, I know, 0.267 is old now when it comes to the v2 repos, but
> it's going to be a while before I can move to a more recent version)
>
> A nasty thought occurred to me today - I believe the coordinator for
> conflict resolution on v2 repos isn't fully hooked up yet in 0.267, so
> what happens when two simultaneous sync requests come in for a v2 repo
> in that version?
>
> Is there enough serialisation in place that the second one will block
> waiting for the first one to complete? Or do I need to worry about
> competing sync jobs until I upgrade to a newer version of Pulp where the
> coordinator support has been integrated properly?
>
> Regards,
> Nick.

I'm 99% positive there's a hacky solution in place where the DB will 
store a flag saying if a sync is in progress and reject another one if 
requested. It won't block, it the request will just outright fail.


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