From: Daira Hopwood Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:42:51 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Add comments and a caveat in webapi.rst indicating that X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-1.10.0b2~7 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/pf/content/%22news.html/...?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b06f8cd8d03a62396809393a3501771264fb5177;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git Add comments and a caveat in webapi.rst indicating that the needs-rebalancing field may be computed incorrectly. refs #1115, #1784, #1477 Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood --- diff --git a/docs/frontends/webapi.rst b/docs/frontends/webapi.rst index 9072ef28..046d2c59 100644 --- a/docs/frontends/webapi.rst +++ b/docs/frontends/webapi.rst @@ -1431,10 +1431,12 @@ mainly intended for developers. list-corrupt-shares: a list of "share locators", one for each share that was found to be corrupt. Each share locator is a list of (serverid, storage_index, sharenum). - needs-rebalancing: (bool) True if there are multiple shares on a single - storage server, indicating a reduction in reliability - that could be resolved by moving shares to new - servers. + needs-rebalancing: (bool) This field is intended to be True iff + reliability could be improved for this file by + rebalancing, i.e. by moving some shares to other + servers. It may be incorrect in some cases for + Tahoe-LAFS up to and including v1.10, and its + precise definition is expected to change. servers-responding: list of base32-encoded storage server identifiers, one for each server which responded to the share query. diff --git a/src/allmydata/immutable/checker.py b/src/allmydata/immutable/checker.py index 37d6a5ea..41000f7e 100644 --- a/src/allmydata/immutable/checker.py +++ b/src/allmydata/immutable/checker.py @@ -778,6 +778,7 @@ class Checker(log.PrefixingLogMixin): # The file needs rebalancing if the set of servers that have at least # one share is less than the number of uniquely-numbered shares # available. + # TODO: this may be wrong, see ticket #1115 comment:27 and ticket #1784. needs_rebalancing = bool(good_share_hosts < len(verifiedshares)) cr = CheckResults(self._verifycap, SI, diff --git a/src/allmydata/immutable/filenode.py b/src/allmydata/immutable/filenode.py index 79e282d9..6b54b2d0 100644 --- a/src/allmydata/immutable/filenode.py +++ b/src/allmydata/immutable/filenode.py @@ -143,7 +143,10 @@ class CiphertextFileNode: good_hosts = len(reduce(set.union, sm.values(), set())) is_healthy = bool(len(sm) >= verifycap.total_shares) is_recoverable = bool(len(sm) >= verifycap.needed_shares) + + # TODO: this may be wrong, see ticket #1115 comment:27 and ticket #1784. needs_rebalancing = bool(len(sm) >= verifycap.total_shares) + prr = CheckResults(cr.get_uri(), cr.get_storage_index(), healthy=is_healthy, recoverable=is_recoverable, needs_rebalancing=needs_rebalancing,