ctdb-recovery: Ban a node that causes recovery failure
... instead of applying banning credits.
There have been a couple of cases where recovery repeatedly takes just
over 2 minutes to fail. Therefore, banning credits expire between
failures and a continuously problematic node is never banned,
resulting in endless recoveries. This is because it takes 2
applications of banning credits before a node is banned, which
generally involves 2 recovery failures.
The recovery helper makes up to 3 attempts to recover each database
during a single run. If a node causes 3 failures then this is really
equivalent to 3 recovery failures in the model that existed before the
recovery helper added retries. In that case the node would have been
banned after 2 failures.
So, instead of applying banning credits to the "most failing" node,
simply ban it directly from the recovery helper.
If multiple nodes are causing recovery failures then this can cause a
node to be banned more quickly than it might otherwise have been, even
pre-recovery-helper. However, 90 seconds (i.e. 3 failures) is a long
time to be in recovery, so banning earlier seems like the best
approach.
BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13670
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>
Reviewed-by: Amitay Isaacs <amitay@gmail.com>
Autobuild-User(master): Amitay Isaacs <amitay@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Mon Nov 5 06:52:33 CET 2018 on sn-devel-144