[pve-devel] rfc : pve-network : idea to generate and reload config accross the nodes

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Apr 4 11:44:47 CEST 2019


> >>So the idea is to detect network.cfg changes inside pmxcfs, and if we detect changes
> >>do a network reload.
> >>
> >>That way we can apply the config without an additional daemon - sounds good.
> 
> Sound good. (so we can do changes in network.cfg.tmp, still have the test button(api call to each nodes), and apply change to network.cfg)
> 
> 
> But how does it work ? who is currently listening for changes in pmxcfs ? (through inotify?)

This is low-level C-code inside pmxcfs (corosync). Please not that INotify does not work at all
on /etc/pve/ - instead, we use versions numbers to track changes (see /etc/pve/.version).




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