[ovs-discuss] [PATCH] mgmt: Local config changes can cause update failures from controller.

[Ben Pfaff]

Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> writes:

> On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>> Perhaps a better solution would be to write a utility that locks
>> the config file and invokes an editor on a copy of it, analogous
>> to "vipw" or "visudo".
>
> This all seems like a lot of work for something that will probably
> only occur in testing environments (where people will likely be
> monitoring all the config files).  I would be more concerned if we
> weren't going to be leaving all of these configuration file headaches
> behind us in the next Open vSwitch release when we (hopefully) move to
> some soft of lightweight database.

It depends on whether we're going to support the "citrix" branch
for any amount of time, I guess.  I don't expect that we'll be
adding the db to the citrix branch?