#2117 new enhancement

Valid helper makes "Connected to Q of R" irrelevant for upload success

Reported by: Faux Owned by: daira
Priority: normal Milestone: undecided
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.10.0
Keywords: upload-helper status Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

When a machine has a valid helper configured and connected, the number of storage nodes it is directly connected to becomes far less interesting.

For example:

  • Machine A is sitting on some awful network (and hence can't connect to nearly anything), but I've made sure it can access the helper (H).
  • Machine H, the helper, can talk to most of the machines in the storage cluster.
  • Machine A's status page reports "Connected to 1 of 9 storage nodes".
  • Machine H's status page reports "Connected to 8 of 9 storage nodes".

From looking at A's status page, it's impossible(?) to know that uploads (at 3-7-10) will succeed.

It would be nice if this was clearer, perhaps by reporting the helper's status?

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed at 2013-11-28T21:58:45Z by daira

  • Component changed from unknown to code-frontend-web
  • Keywords helper status added

Note that the helper isn't used in all cases, only for immutable uploads (#268, #283). I agree that it would be useful to show the helper's connected-server-count as well though.

We would probably need to add chk_upload_helper.connected_server_count to the helper's stats result.

comment:2 Changed at 2015-08-16T15:26:23Z by zooko

  • Keywords upload-helper added; helper removed
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