On 5/4/20 6:17 PM, Han Zhou wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:13 PM Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> If an administrator removes all of the databases in a cluster from
>> disk, then ovsdb IDL clients will have a problem. The databases will all
>> reset their stored indexes to 0, so The IDL client's min_index will be
>> higher than the indexes of all databases in the cluster. This results in
>> the client constantly connecting to databases, detecting the data as
>> "stale", and then attempting to connect to another.
>>
>> This function provides a way to reset the IDL to an initial state with
>> min_index of 0. This way, the client will not wrongly detect the
>> database data as stale and will recover properly.
>>
>> Notice that this function is not actually used anywhere in this patch.
>> This will be used by OVN, though, since OVN is the primary user of
>> clustered OVSDB.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <mmich...@redhat.com>
>> ---
> Acked-by: Han Zhou <hz...@ovn.org>

Thanks, Mark and Han!  Applied to master.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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