[Kea-users] IP leases split across files

[Peter Davies]

Hi Jason,
    This file is created by the lease file cleanup process (LFC).

You can read more about this in the Kea ARM.
See: https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.7.7/arm/lfc.html#the-lfc-process

Peter


On 02/04/2025 16.42, Jason Creviston wrote:
> Does anyone know why this happens?
>
> Yesterday there were no leases in the kea-leases4.csv file (only 
> headers), this morning there are a handful, and their expiry times are 
> for tomorrow - which would be correct if they just renewed or acquired 
> them. Their corresponding lease entries in kea-leases4.csv.2 are 
> expired as of this morning, except one that expires in about three 
> hours. Mac addresses and all other info is consistent across files 
> (aside from expiry epoch).
>
> On a related note: I've no idea how the 2^nd  file even gets created. 
> While testing, before rolling out to production, I'd noticed this and 
> deleted the "csv.2" versions, but they always come back.
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   1653 Apr  2 14:16 kea-leases4.csv
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea  28329 Apr  2 13:50 kea-leases4.csv.2
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea    377 Apr  2 13:40 kea-leases6.csv
> -rw-r--r--  1 _kea _kea   1532 Apr  2 13:35 kea-leases6.csv.2
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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