Hi Max,
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Max Zulio
If I kill -9 mysqld on all three of my nodes in the cluster, then start the services simultaneously,the cluster comes back online successfully using the gvwstate.dat file.
If I gracefully shutdown mysql on all three nodes as you mentioned the gvwstate.dat file is deleted. This means when the cluster needs to be restarted I am forced to edit my.cnf and replace wsrep_cluster_address=gcomm://x.x.x.x,y.y.y.y,z.z.z.z with wsrep_cluster_address=gcomm:// on one of the nodes before I can bring up the cluster.
Is there anyway to have the last node that is shutdown gracefully keep it's gvwstate.dat file so that the next time the cluster is started it can come online without editing the config file?
It might not help a whole lot to only have a gvwstate.dat file on the last node that shuts down, since that would only allow for recovering a cluster with that single node. In that case, it would kind of be like a shortcut to bootstrapping. There is a feature request on Codership's Github that requests a new wsrep_provider_option: pc.recover_minimum_weight. If that ever gets added to Galera, that would allow you to automatically recover a cluster after a graceful shutdown: https://github.com/codership/galera/issues/283 Thanks, Geoff