[Linux-HA] About time-out of STONITH.

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 15:07, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:49:52AM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:14, HIDEO YAMAUCHI
>> <renayama19661014 at ybb.ne.jp> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >> Which operation did you cause to fail?  The monitor or the fencing operation?
>> > When I caused fencing, I generated time-out in RA of STONITH.
>> >
>> > Possibly is this phenomenon improved in Pacemaker?
>>
>> By design the crm has no idea which node or plugin is used (or were
>> tried and failed).
>> So it would be impossible to for it recover the RA on its own.
>>
>> It _may_ make sense for the stonithd to unload any plugin that reports
>> a failed stonith action (and thus causing the monitor to eventually
>> fail) but I'll leave that for Dejan to think about :-)
>
> stonithd doesn't unload any plugins depending on failed actions.

right - it was a suggestion for a possible enhancement.
no idea if its a good idea though.