[ovs-dev] [db-backup 0/5] avoid unneeded db compaction and improve backups

[Ethan Jackson]

I'll review this series unless someone else really wants to.

Ethan

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> OVSDB has some really nice features for debugging databases, but they
> only work when the database doesn't get compacted before the
> investigation gets started.  Until now every restart or reboot has
> compacted the database; this series of patches improves on that.
>
> Ben Pfaff (5):
>  ovs-vsctl: Improve documentation and --help output.
>  ovsdb: New function ovsdb_file_read_schema() for reading schema from
>    db.
>  ovsdb-tool: Add commands for printing the database checksum.
>  ovsdb-tool: New command "needs-conversion".
>  Avoid unneeded database compaction at startup, and improve backups.
>
>  debian/openvswitch-switch.init   |   13 ++++--
>  ovsdb/SPECS                      |    4 ++
>  ovsdb/file.c                     |   86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  ovsdb/file.h                     |    6 ++-
>  ovsdb/ovsdb-tool.1.in            |   38 +++++++++++-----
>  ovsdb/ovsdb-tool.c               |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>  ovsdb/ovsdb.c                    |   35 +++++++++++++---
>  ovsdb/ovsdb.h                    |    9 +++-
>  tests/ovsdb-execution.at         |    3 +-
>  tests/ovsdb-server.at            |    2 +-
>  tests/ovsdb-tool.at              |   42 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  utilities/ovs-vsctl.8.in         |    8 ++--
>  utilities/ovs-vsctl.c            |   17 ++++++-
>  xenserver/etc_init.d_openvswitch |   15 ++++---
>  14 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
>
>
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