There was a discussion in the core meeting about that, please see the
comments on the relevant patch for that.

Thanks,
Thomas


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Guido Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Thomas Thrainer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Ganeti did not record the status of instance disks (active/inactive)
>> explicitly until now. Instead, the status was inferred from the
>> instance status (running/ADMIN_down/etc.).
>> This led to problems when the disks of an instance were active
>> (through a gnt-instance activate-disks) and then one of the nodes
>> rebooted. In this case, disks were not re-activated automatically,
>> which is especially bad in the case of DRBD, where the non-rebooting
>> node ended up in WFConnection state.
>>
>> This patch series introduces a new instance attribute called disks_active.
>> This flag records if the disks of an instance should be active or not.
>> cfgupgrade is updated to being able to upgrade to the new format (2.9)
>> too.
>>
>
> Do we need cfgupgrade here? Should we just use the config self-upgrade
> mechanism?
> (for the downgrade we do, definitely)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Guido
>
>


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