Incremental flushing in rio.c is only used to avoid huge kernel buffers
synched to slow disks creating big latency spikes, so this fix has no
durability implications, however it is certainly more correct to make
sure that the FILE buffers are flushed to the kernel before calling
fsync on the file descriptor.
Thanks to Li Shao Kai for reporting this issue in the Redis mailing
list.
One of the simple heuristics used by Redis Cluster in order to avoid
losing data in the typical failure modes created by the asynchronous
replication with the slaves (a master is unable, when accepting a
write, to immediately tell if it should be really accepted or refused
because of a configuration change), is to wait some time before to
rejoin the cluster after being partitioned away from the majority of
instances.
A similar condition happens when a master is restarted. It does not know
if it was already failed over, nor if all the clients have already an
updated configuration about the cluster map, so it is possible that
clients will try to write to stale masters that were restarted.
In a similar way this commit changes masters behavior so they wait
2000 milliseconds before accepting writes after a reboot. There is
nothing special about 2 seconds if not to be a value supposedly larger
a few orders of magnitude compared to the cluster bus communication
latencies.
The code was doing checks for slaves that should be done only when the
instance is currently a master. Switching a slave from a master to
another one should just work.
When an instance is potentially set to replicate with another master, it
is conceptually disconnected forever, since we have no old copy of the
dataset for this master in memory.
CLUSTER FORGET is not useful if we can't remove a node from all the
nodes of our cluster because of the Gossip protocol that keeps adding
a given node to nodes where we already tried to remove it.
So now CLUSTER FORGET implements a nodes blacklist that is set and
checked by the Gossip section processing function. This way before a
node is re-added at least 60 seconds must elapse since the FORGET
execution.
This means that redis-trib has some time to remove a node from a whole
cluster. It is possible that in the future it will be uesful to raise
the 60 sec figure to something bigger.
The rejoin delay usually is the node timeout. However if the node
timeout is too small, we set it to 500 milliseconds, that is a value
chosen to be greater than most setups RTT / instances latency figures
so that likely communication with other nodes happen before rejoining.
Usually we update the cluster state (to understand if we should accept
queries or reply with an error) only when there is a change in the state
of the nodes. However for the "delayed rejoin" feature to work, that is,
for a master to wait some time before accepting queries again after it
rejoins the majority, we need to periodically update the last time when
the node was partitioned away from the majority.
With this commit if the cluster is down we update the state ten times
per second.
Even without the user messing manually with the file, it is still
possible to have blank lines (just a single "\n" per line) because of
how the nodes.conf update/write process works.
The way the file was generated was unsafe and leaded to nodes.conf file
corruption (zero length file) on server stop/crash during the creation
of the file.
The previous file update method was as simple as open with O_TRUNC
followed by the write call. While the write call was a single one with
the full payload, ensuring no half-written files for POSIX semantics,
stopping the server just after the open call resulted into a zero-length
file (all the nodes information lost!).
A client can enter a special cluster read-only mode using the READONLY
command: if the client read from a slave instance after this command,
for slots that are actually served by the instance's master, the queries
will be processed without redirection, allowing clients to read from
slaves (but without any kind fo read-after-write guarantee).
The READWRITE command can be used in order to exit the readonly state.
The new command allows to change master-specific configurations
at runtime. All the settable parameters can be retrivied via the
SENTINEL MASTER command, so there is no equivalent "GET" command.
The claim about unlinking the instance from the connected hash tables
was the opposite of the reality. Also the current actual behavior is
safer in most cases, so it is better to manually unlink when needed.
The new function is used when we want to normalize an IP address without
performing a DNS lookup if the string to resolve is not a valid IP.
This is useful every time only IPs are valid inputs or when we want to
skip DNS resolution that is slow during runtime operations if we are
required to block.
Masters not understanding REPLCONF ACK will reply with errors to our
requests causing a number of possible issues.
This commit detects a global replication offest set to -1 at the end of
the replication, and marks the client representing the master with the
REDIS_PRE_PSYNC flag.
Note that this flag was called REDIS_PRE_PSYNC_SLAVE but now it is just
REDIS_PRE_PSYNC as it is used for both slaves and masters starting with
this commit.
This commit fixes issue #1488.
