> Satellite and Controller are quite obvious, Combined is a node that runs > a Satellite and may sometimes run a Controller, Auxiliary is a node that > runs neither but is registered for other reasons, this is mostly > reserved for future features. >
Can these 'roles' be modified afterwards once set? or they are static, i.e do we have to remove node and re-add it with another role specification. > There is a NodeLost API and a corresponding command for it. Is there a way for an admin to access API and run this command or it's for dev only use? it is expected that a system > administrator will clean up a resource manually if automatic cleanup > does not work, I presume here you mean cleaning up resource LVs,ZVOLs etc. Sure, this is true as long as the node is accessible. > ...and as soon as LINSTOR detects that the resource has been > cleaned up properly, it will disappear from LINSTOR's database if the > resource was marked for deletion. > Nice. There are however no plans to add any force flags like in drbdmanage to > resource management (or similar) commands, because that frequently > caused massive desyncs of drbdmanage's state and the real state of > backend storage resource, as it was frequently misused by > administrators, who also often expected the various "force" options to > do something completely different than they actually did. > True ... > Deleting the database will cause LINSTOR to initialize a new database. > The database could be anywhere depending on how LINSTOR was installed, > where it currently is can be found out by looking at the connection-url > setting in controller's database.cfg file. > In my case it's in /opt/linstor-server/database.cfg and the entry is.. <entry key="connection-url">jdbc:h2:/opt/linstor-server/linstordb</entry> Are you saying that deleting /opt/linstor-server/linstordb will reset all settings and cause LINSTOR to create a new database file? > This is supposed to be managed by a cluster resource manager like > pacemaker. > Obviously, in a multi-controller HA environment, the controller database > must be available on all nodes, and there are various possibilities to > ensure it is > Thanks, I think it has already been mentioned that for Proxmox, this will be in the form of a HA VM appliance, which will be provided by LINBIT. > > I'll leave answering the package-related questions to our packaging > experts. > Thanks again.. BR Yannis
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