Can't we unlock the blocked flushgates when a node leaves/crashes ?
Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
Manik Surtani wrote:
>
> Yes, this was always an issue with the way we used FLUSH - that
> someone in the group could initiate a FLUSH and then die leaving
> other members' flushBlockGates closed. TBH, apart from adding
> timeouts to the flushBlockGate, I can't see how we would get around
> this.
Me too. I am confused how all these issues started to pop out now. How
come they slipped for so long?
>
> Vladimir/Bela - in the scenario described (node initiates a FLUSH and
> then dies) would other nodes still see a view change relating to the
> node dying?
They would. However, I will add this test case to verify it.
Cheers.
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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
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