Hello.
I’m trying to understand the entries in grastate.dat file, particularly seqno value. If I understand correctly, the ‘seqno’ value increases as node gets written to. If all nodes are shut down I can use ‘seqno’ to figure out which node was last written to - it is the one which has the highest ‘seqno’ value.
Now, am I correct in assuming that in the working (not degraded) cluster all the seqno values should be the same? That is, if I stop the writes completely, then shut down all the units, the seqno values across the cluster should be the same? (Which, in turn, means that I can safely boostrap from any pxc node?)
What also confuses me are values of ‘0’ and ‘-1’ for the seqno. I’m imagining that -1 corresponds to an error of some kind. But, when I bootstrap off the note which has ‘-1’ as a seqno, and then shut it down, the seqno won’t change - how am I to determine, then, if the node has failed?
What does seqno value of ‘0’ represents? I was under impression that ‘0’ means that there were no writes to the cluster since the bootstrap, but that seems to be in contradiction with ‘-1’ described above.
Lastly, when is grastate.dat file created, when it gets written to, and is it ever removed by the pxc? [INDENT]
Mario[/INDENT]