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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    Re: [Linux-ha-dev] heartbeat doesn't wait for stonith to complete
From:       Alan Robertson <alanr () unix ! sh>
Date:       2001-07-29 6:40:59
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Andy Poling wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> > So what if the stonith hangs forever? what should we do? nothing? retry?
> 
> Is it not the responsibility of the stonith method implementation to _not_
> hang forever?

Yep.

> It seems like the different methods will have a different notion of what's a
> reasonable amount of time.  E.g. meatware probably should wait indefinitely,
> but most of the other methods probably already have some implicit definition
> of a maximum reasonable amount of time.

But, they need to be run from a child process, which does the work, so the
heartbeats go on... (this is how it currently is).

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh
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