Hi Iustin

Am 26. Oktober 2011 13:55 schrieb Iustin Pop <[email protected]>:
> I… somewhat dislike this change/fear it can lead to breakage. Currently,
> we pass a static list, whereas in the future we pass functions.
>
> Basically right now, the list of "frozen" before the upload starts. With
> this change, the node:ip mapping can change even after we start the
> call, and because we share objects without locks on the nodes
> themselves, we don't know if the objects (the nodes) themselves will
> stay consistent.

I had another look. There is exactly one case where a node's primary
IP address can change once it's been added. That would be re-adding a
node with DNS resolving to a different IP address. There is indeed a
race condition, but it already existed with the static list passed to
the RPC layer. I hope one day we'll just pass around copies, not
references to these objects.

That said, since it's no significant change, can this go in?

Michael

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