I am about to change resharding to block the start of the node. Being a
somewhat slow operation, the timeout of 900 sec is guaranteed to trigger
in large nodes with lots of data.
This patch effectively disables the start timeout, while keeping the
stop timeout unchanged.
My preference would have been to use a timeout extension mechanism
during resharding. Systemd actually has such mechanism, where we can
send a message through sd_notify asking the timeout to be extended.
However such mechanism is not present in SystemD v219, used by RHEL7.
That means for RHEL7 we need a different way to deal with the timeout
anyway.
The second preference is also obviously to write "infinity" as the
timeout value. But guess what? SystemD v219 also has a bug in which
infinity is interepreted as zero
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446015)
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20200407155754.10020-1-glauber@scylladb.com>
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