On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 13:48 +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2009-01-25T14:14:12, Steven Dake <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Same as before, but the trunk apparently doesn't have the
> > clear_high_node_bit flag feature.
> > 
> > Andrew can you work up a patch for that feature for trunk?
> 
> I think before we rework this, we may want to readdress the nodeid issue
> more completely.
> 
> Right now - short of chrissie's first patch -, the in-kernel DLM doesn't
> like even 31bit nodeids, and will blow up quite readily. So, whether it
> blows up with 31bit nodeids or 32bit nodeids doesn't really make a
> difference, as the admin has to auto-configure them anyway ;-)
> 
> The in-kernel code will need fixing anyway before auto-generation works
> in practice.
> 
> We can thus either directly fix it so that 32bit work (and this patch
> becomes superfluous), or go all the way to 128bit UUIDs (which can
> either be safely auto-generated or use the node's IPv6 address), the
> latter being IMHO preferable but requiring rework of openAIS too.
> 
> 
> Regards,
>     Lars
> 

I have concerns as how this would effect compatibility but could be a
compile time option if the deployer was willing to break compatibility.

node IDs are used extensively in the totem implementation (for better or
worse).

Regards
-steve

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