Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#748 closed Defect (fixed)
Accidental host merge lost 99 hours of work
Reported by: | Thyme Lawn | Owned by: | davea |
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Priority: | Major | Milestone: | 6.4 |
Component: | Web - Project | Version: | 6.2.19 |
Keywords: | host merge | Cc: |
Description
A user on Orbit@home accidentally merged 2 computers. The co-existent test wasn't performed as neither host had any credit.
The host retired by the merge had been running a task for 99 hours and this was aborted (as a detached client) when the server assigned a new host id on the host's next scheduler request.
This loss wouldn't have happened if there was a test that no tasks are in progress on hosts with no credit (in hosts_compatible()).
(In [16163]) - web: in checking if hosts can be merged,