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List:       drbd-user
Subject:    Re: [DRBD-user] initscript should be non-interactive
From:       Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner () linbit ! com>
Date:       2004-05-27 9:41:58
Message-ID: 200405271141.58413.philipp.reisner () linbit ! com
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On Monday 24 May 2004 17:06, Martin Bene wrote:
> > So, what do you suggest ? -- Unfortunately heartbeat does not
> > take hints
> > from DRBD. The only way to make sure that heartbeat does not
> > activate a
> > resource is to not start it at all.
> >
> > We are aware of the problem and working on it. But do not
> > expect that we
> > will change anything in DRBD-0.6.x .
> >
> > Development happens at DRBD-0.7. Although it is not formal, I would
> > say we are already in a kind of feature freeze for 0.7.
>
> Hmm, the obvious approach would be an option to return a resource to
> unconfigured state if the 2nd node can't be reached within a timeout.
> You'd end up with two configured and one unconfigured drbd device. In
> the previously mentioned example.
>
> If heartbeat subsequenctly tries to activate a resource on that
> unconfigured device, it will fail, while still allowing other resources
> to come up.
>
> An administrator would be able to configure / start drbd + corresponding
> services on whatever node he likes. None too sure how well heartbeat
> would be able to further deal with this state of resources.
>

Hmm, I like this idea... [I will give it a try]

-Philipp
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