<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A week ago, the CentralGrid folks changed their regions from SQLite to
use a centralized MySQL datastor and had a problem. I got their
regions back to SQLite and everything worked again.<br><br>Yesterday
the UCIGrid folks tried to update past r4058 and had a similar problem.
The problem is an inability to bring up any regions and getting the
error "unknown master user UUID".<br><br>During all of this, OSGrid is working pretty well.<br><br>I can tell
you that some regions on OSGrid are running SQLite (plazas, Yang, Celt,
'moons' to name a few) and others are running MySQL (Nebadon's,
daTwitch's) and we did that intentionally to test both datastores.<br><br>But,
heres the deal. There is no centralized datastor for *any* region on
OSGrid. The UGAI MySQL database stands on its own and contains the
users, regions, assets, inventory and web site folders.<br><br>No
region talks to the UGAI MySQL except through the UGAI. Each region has
its own standalone MySQL or SQLite datastor. Another point. I did run
the plazas on the UGAI server for a while, but I had some trouble with
the gridserver freezing and a couple of months ago, I moved the plazas
to our backup server and they have been running much better ever since.<br><br>It
very well may be that we have uncovered a problem. If so, this is
going to be tough to close the loop as we dont have that use case setup anywhere.<br><br>There are 4 of the core team that
have console access to OSGrid and generally just watch over our
shoulder or read entries in the MySQL datastore. We did that in order to
have a way for our core developers insight into the dynamics of a
running grid.<br><br>But, since OSGrid is a heterogeneous grid,
meaning, all the regions are *elsewhere*. That is, none are on the same lan
segment as the UGAI, all the regions datastores are local to the
regions and not connected to the UGAI except through the external UGAI
interfaces.<br><br>Hmmm. If true, how are
we going to figure this one out for grids that are more homogeneous,
that is, the regions are tied more closely to the UGAI then on OSGrid.<br><br>Charles</div></div></body></html>