[ovs-discuss] Disabling ovsdb-server

[Ben Pfaff]

Delete the stale vifs from the database at boot time.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Paweł Szczepaniak
<pawel.szczepaniak at innogames.de> wrote:
> Why it's so bad idea? I know, that in case of vswitchd going down, we'll
> loose our config, but starting up all vifs after hard reboot is also very
> big problem for us.
> What you would suggest than?
>
>
>
> On 09/19/2014 04:59 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:24:38PM +0200, Pawe?? Szczepaniak wrote:
>>>
>>> I wanted to disable starting ovsdb-server on our debian servers, as
>>> we don't need it and it can cause problems after hard reboot.
>>> We use it with LACP, configured in /etc/network/interfaces. On
>>> machine we have also installed XEN, which is creatig vifs for each
>>> guest. Problem appear after hard reboot, when all vifs from db are
>>> created and we cannot start domUs, because we cannot create vif for
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Currently I simply remove conf.db on start, so when it starts,
>>> create a new file and fill it, but it's not cleanest solution. We
>>> would like to get rid of ovsdb-server running after
>>> openvswitch-switch, but I was unable to track down method for it.
>>
>> It's a bad idea not to run ovsdb-server.
>
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