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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-10-29 16:37:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> | 2018-11-02 11:29:10 -0700 |
| commit | 80c42f7f218fedd5841aa62d7e9774fc1f9e9b32 (patch) | |
| tree | 3bd6616e02542797722c88f1d3fb64701891e55b /Documentation/ref | |
| parent | af26093ab197c309dc0cfa83c5a2db34706f6021 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-80c42f7f218fedd5841aa62d7e9774fc1f9e9b32.tar.gz | |
ovsdb: Clarify that a server that leaves a cluster may never rejoin.
This wasn't clear from the documentation.
Reported-by; Paul Greenberg <greenpau@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Yifeng Sun <pkusunyifeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst b/Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst index 39d85b6e5..f891309fc 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 |