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

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 03:45:10PM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> 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.

It would save some memory, not much though, but it'd also
increase the code's complexity. The latter probably by far
outweighs the former :)

Thanks,

Dejan