When a replacing node is in early boot up and is not in HIBERNATE sate
yet, if the node is killed by a user, the node will wrongly send a
shutdown message to other nodes. This is because UNKNOWN is not in
SILENT_SHUTDOWN_STATES, so in gossiper::do_stop_gossiping, the node will
send shutdown message. Other nodes in the cluster will call
storage_service::handle_state_normal for this node, since NORMAL and
SHUTDOWN status share the same status handler. As a result, other nodes
will incorrectly think the node is part of the cluster and the replace
operation is finished.
Such problem was seen in replace_node_no_hibernate_state_test dtest:
n1, n2 are in the cluster
n2 is dead
n3 is started to replace n2, but n3 is killed in the middle
n3 announces SHUTDOWN status wrongly
n1 runs storage_service::handle_state_normal for n3
n1 get tokens for n3 which is empty, because n3 hasn't gossip tokens yet
n1 skips update normal tokens for n3, but think n3 has replaced n2
n4 starts to replace n2
n4 checks the tokens for n2 in storage_service::join_token_ring (Cannot
replace token {} which does not exist!) or
storage_service::prepare_replacement_info (Cannot replace_address {}
because it doesn't exist in gossip)
To fix, we add UNKNOWN into SILENT_SHUTDOWN_STATES and avoid sending
shutdown message.
Tests: replace_address_test.py:TestReplaceAddress.replace_node_no_hibernate_state_test
Fixes: #6436
(cherry picked from commit dddde33512)
Scylla
Quick-start
To get the build going quickly, Scylla offers a frozen toolchain which would build and run Scylla using a pre-configured Docker image. Using the frozen toolchain will also isolate all of the installed dependencies in a Docker container. Assuming you have met the toolchain prerequisites, which is running Docker in user mode, building and running is as easy as:
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./configure.py
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ninja build/release/scylla
$ ./tools/toolchain/dbuild ./build/release/scylla --developer-mode 1
Please see HACKING.md for detailed information on building and developing Scylla.
Note: GCC >= 8.1.1 is required to compile Scylla.
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- Run Scylla
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Testing
See test.py manual.
Scylla APIs and compatibility
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cd dist/docker
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