On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 08:49 +0100, Christine Caulfield wrote:
> Alan Conway wrote:
> > Are the membership lists passed to the callback cpg_confchg_fn_t and
> > retruned by cpg_membership_get guaranteed to be in any particular order,
> > e.g. youngest to oldest?
> > 
> > If not, are all members of the cluster guaranteed to get the membership
> > list in the same order?
> 
> No. the node/pid list will not necessarily be in the same order on all 
> nodes. Even though the join/leave mechanism is strictly ordered, when 
> new nodes are added to a group they get their list sent to them from 
> other nodes and this will arrive after they have added themselves.
> 
> > I'm looking for a way to pick a single member of the cluster to respond
> > to config changes - e.g. to mcast cluster-wide information for new
> > members.
> 
> The usual way of doing this is to pick the lowest node ID of all nodes 
> in the group.

Excellent suggestion, any dependable ordering of the members will do. 

Thanks!

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