[Pacemaker] [PATCH]The abolition of distinguishing a node name by a small and capital letter.

renayama19661014 at ybb.ne.jp renayama19661014 at ybb.ne.jp
Thu Dec 17 00:39:19 UTC 2009


Hi Dejan,

> That would be great since I'm overwhelmed with other business now.
> And please open a bugzilla if there isn't any so that we can
> track this.

All right.
Please wait....

Best Regards,
Hideo Yamauchi.

--- Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Hi Hideo-san,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:11:45AM +0900, renayama19661014 at ybb.ne.jp wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Thank you for understanding of all of you.
> > 
> > > Yes, though that means changing all plugins.
> > I can assist the revision of the plug in.
> 
> That would be great since I'm overwhelmed with other business now.
> And please open a bugzilla if there isn't any so that we can
> track this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dejan
> 
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Hideo Yamauchi.
> > 
> > --- Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Lars,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:24:42PM +0100, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:25:41AM +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > > > > Hi Hideo-san,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:22:35AM +0900, renayama19661014 at ybb.ne.jp wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Dejan,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Are node names uppercase? And then stonith doesn't work?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The node name is a small letter. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Well, why would they put in uppercase names then?
> > > > > 
> > > > > > stonith acts, but it is not carried out because it is not found an target node.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > It is caused by a mistake of the setting obviously. 
> > > > > > However, for a user, some kind of measures are necessary.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sorry, this smells like wontfix :)
> > > > 
> > > > Hm. let me try to summarize my understanding of this thread.
> > > > 
> > > > Hostnames are in general case insensitive.
> > > > 
> > > > In pacemaker/openais/heartbeat, in most places, this is correctly taken
> > > > care of by using strcasecmp(3) or tolower(3) in C code where
> > > > appropriate.
> > > 
> > > Correctly :) We have a bugzilla open for this, because it
> > > breaks configurations with node names which contain uppercase
> > > letters. But I doubt that that will be fixed. Basically, the only
> > > way is to just have lowercase host names.
> > > 
> > > > some stonith plugins however seem to be case sensitive,
> > > > and will just break when one uses hostnames with inappropriate case.
> > > > 
> > > > Hideo-san proposes to fix that stonith plugin,
> > > > to make it deal with hostnames case insensitive as well
> > > > (as the rest of the cluster stack and dns and whatever does),
> > > > but to warn about the fact that there is some case mismatch between
> > > > spelling in some config file and "hostlist detection" of the stonith plugin.
> > > 
> > > My understanding was that the user placed uppercase node names in
> > > the stonith configuration, but the node names are actually
> > > lowercase. But if your understanding is correct, then we may fix
> > > this.
> > > 
> > > > Hideo-san,
> > > > if my understanding of your proposal is correct,
> > > > then I think that should just be done.
> > > > makes the code more robust,
> > > > follows principle of least surprise etc.
> > > > 
> > > > there may even be plugins that can only "autodetect" in all caps
> > > > because of limitations in the firmware of the hardware used.
> > > > I don't know.
> > > 
> > > Right, could be, but that should be dealt with in the plugin.
> > > 
> > > > but either folding hostnames to all lowercase,
> > > > or using strcasecmp, sounds reasonable.
> > > 
> > > Yes, though that means changing all plugins.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Dejan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > : Lars Ellenberg
> > > > : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability
> > > > : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com
> > > > 
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