On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 8:10:08 PM UTC+1, Cliff Stanford wrote:
>
> On 26/01/16 19:58, 'Igor Galić' via s3ql wrote: 
>
> > split brain situations aren't theoretical. completely avoiding them 
> > is sometimes impossible. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736 
> > Sometimes you lose a machine because it's literally on fire, or just 
> > because its hard disk(s) breaks… 
>
> Have you thought about setting --metadata-upload-interval to something 
> lower than the default 86,400?  Maybe reduce it to 3,600 which means you 
> won's lose more than an hour's data. 
>
> > Even just a shutdown of the vm (which, in theory, unmounts all file 
> systems) 
> > will make it so that it's impossible to mount the fs on another machine: 
>
> Are you sure that the shutdown is (a) calling umount.s3ql and (b) 
>

probably not. Since it's mounted and not handled as service (yet),
and we're calling shutdown, it'll just be unmounted using umount
 

> waiting for it to finish?  It can take a very long time to return, 
>

and standard umount (or shutdown) might be a little impatient…
 

> depending on the size of the dirty cache, the size of the metadata and 
> the speed of the line. 
>
>
but this sounds like a very good idea, and i'll try that out *now*

 

> Regards 
> Cliff. 
>
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