I'm not sure what you mean.  Do you mean that the commands for removing
a server from a cluster aren't documented well enough?  Or something
else?

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 07:03:07PM +0000, Paul Greenberg wrote:
> I would also add that when a server leaves a cluster, it must be removed 
> using “ovs-appctl -t db.sock.ctl cluster/kick <dead-server-id>”
> 
> Best Regards,
> Paul Greenberg
> 
> ________________________________
> From: [email protected] on behalf of Yifeng Sun 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 2:25 PM
> To: Ben Pfaff
> Cc: ovs dev
> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovsdb: Clarify that a server that leaves a 
> cluster may never rejoin.
> 
> Looks good to me, thanks.
> Reviewed-by: Yifeng Sun <[email protected]>
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 4:37 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > This wasn't clear from the documentation.
> >
> > Reported-by; Paul Greenberg <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst | 3 +++
> > ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in | 3 +++
> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst
> > index 39d85b6e5774..f891309fc05d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst
> > @@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ cluster: transactions not yet replicated to the server
> > will be lost, and
> > transactions not yet applied to the cluster may be committed. Afterward,
> > any
> > servers in its former cluster will regard the server to have failed.
> >
> > +Once a server leaves a cluster, it may never rejoin it. Instead, create
> > a new
> > +server and join it to the cluster.
> > +
> > The servers in a cluster synchronize data over a cluster management
> > protocol
> > that is specific to Open vSwitch; it is not the same as the OVSDB protocol
> > specified in RFC 7047. For this purpose, a server in a cluster is tied
> > to a
> > diff --git a/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in b/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in
> > index 2d80dafffb7d..9f78e87f655c 100644
> > --- a/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in
> > +++ b/ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in
> > @@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ executed.
> > .IP
> > Use \fBovsdb\-client wait\fR (see \fBovsdb\-client\fR(1)) to wait
> > until the server has left the cluster.
> > +.IP
> > +Once a server leaves a cluster, it may never rejoin it. Instead,
> > +create a new server and join it to the cluster.
> > .
> > .IP "\fBcluster/kick \fIdb server\fR"
> > Start graceful removal of \fIserver\fR from \fIdb\fR's cluster, like
> > --
> > 2.16.1
> >
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