----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Yarwood" <lyarwood(a)redhat.com>
To: "Saggi Mizrahi" <smizrahi(a)redhat.com>
Cc: vdsm-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:53:45 AM
Subject: Re: [vdsm] How should we handle aborted tasks? via engine, vdsClient or both?
On 07/18/2012 03:13 PM, Saggi Mizrahi wrote:
> We purposefully removed the ability to stop and aborted task from
> outside VDSM.
> It is one of the many features VDSM had (and still has) that could
> corrupt you data center if abused.
Understood, however we also lack the ability to manually recover a
task
so is it just a case of waiting for VDSM to forcibly remove the
aborted
tasks itself?
Yes, Task recovery isn't really that robust. We are working on a
different approach for tasks that is more cluster aware.
> On a related note, this is the time that the 1st rule of VDSM
> didn't apply!
> This is one hell of a milestone!
I would ask what the 1st rule of VDSM is but I fear I might wake up
in a
basement.
Lee
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