[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] ovsdb-tool: add db-set-election-timer command for clustered databases

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 02:25:52PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> After creating the new cluster database write a raft entry that
> sets the desired election timer. This allows CMSes to set the
> election timer at cluster start and avoid an error-prone
> election timer modification process after the cluster is up.
> 
> Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1831778
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Address Ben's comments; add --help and manpage docs
> - Write raft record directly instead of using private raft.c functions

Hmm, I don't think this change was what I asked for.  I asked for a new
option, like "--election-timer=TIMEOUT create-cluster DB CONTENTS
LOCAL".  Then, if we add some other new option later, we can type
"--foobar-option=QUUXWAG create-cluster DB CONTENTS LOCAL", and so on.
This adds a new command, which is quite different.

Thanks,

Ben.