Setting regions is not working

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Hello,

I am running a FoundationDB cluster from scratch with version 7.3.43. I am trying to set up regions, but it seems there is a bug, and it doesn’t work, or at least I can’t understand what I am missing. I followed the steps described in the doc Configuration — FoundationDB OFF documentation, but when I try to set the first region configuration, I keep getting a ERROR: Unknown option.

Here is the full file I am giving to the fileconfigure command (enough to trigger the error):

{
"regions":[{
    "datacenters":[{
        "id":"dca",
        "priority":1
    }]
}]
}

All my processes have the dcid set, I really can’t see anything I’m doing wrong.
Any help is appreciated.

Regards.

2

Trying with the configure command in fdbcli to two regions, it accepts the new configuration, and says it was applied, but it then tells me that to increase usable_regions would result in an invalid config, and when typing status json there is no field for “regions” at all.

So it’s not behaving as expected even this way.

3

Tried to reproduce on 7.1.61, but there it seems to work as expected

4

Hey, i just want to say im observing the exact same behavior as you did.
My plan next was to try when 7.3 was officially declared stable.

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5

Isn’t it stable already? 7.3.43 is the recommended version on their GitHub.

6

I think the official stable is still 7.1 , this is what the documentation defaults to when you access the documentation site. Im not 100% sure though.

7

I fixed it in

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Running 7.3.69, I get ERROR: Unknown option when I run fdbcli --exec 'fileconfigure region.json' - it seems no matter what I put in region.json (as long as it’s valid json - invalid json will output a different error). I downgraded to 7.1.57 and the same region.json file loads without error.

Here’s an example region.json:

{
  "regions": [
    {
      "datacenters": [
        {
          "id": "dc1",
          "priority": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}