[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] First step to make DNA more useful and configurable

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Wed May 14 17:46:20 UTC 2008


Simo Sorce wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
>> These first three patches are the starting point for making DNA much 
>> more useful
>> in a dynamic environment where masters can come and go and where you 
>> do not want
>> to reconfigure all of them at the same time just because you are 
>> adding a new
>> one.
>> See details here: http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNA_Plugin
>>
>> These first patches only make it possible to add a maxvalue and check 
>> that the
>> value allocate is actually free before assigning it, skipping until 
>> the first
>> free is found otherwise.
>>
>> This patchset currently works and is backwards compatible.
>>
>> The next step will be to implement the housekeeping functions that 
>> allows
>> multiple masters to actually split and transfer ranges of values 
>> between them.
>> This is necessary for 2 reasons:
>> 1. to allow new masters to be added and automatically assign them 
>> some space
>> to alloc from.
>> 2. To allow space to be shifted to masters that are more hungry than 
>> others.
>
> New patch set to replace the previos, fixes an issue spotted by Rich.
ack
>
> Simo.
>
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