[Pacemaker] Backup ring is marked faulty

[Steven Dake]

On 08/04/2011 02:04 PM, Sebastian Kaps wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> On 04.08.2011, at 20:59, Steven Dake wrote:
> 
>> meaning the corosync community doesn't investigate redundant ring issues
>> prior to corosync versions 1.4.1.
> 
> Sadly, we need to use the SLES version for support reasons.
> I'll try to convince them to supply us with a fix for this problem.
> 
> In the mean time: would it be safe to leave the backup ring marked faulty 
> the next this happens? Would this result in a state that is effectively 
> like having no second ring or is there a chance that this might still 
> affect the cluster's stability? 

If a ring is marked faulty, it is no longer operational and there is no
longer a redundant network.

> To my knowledge, changing the ring configuration requires a complete 
> restart of the cluster framework on all nodes, right?
> 

yes although fixing the retransmit list problem will not require a restart

Regards
-steve

>> I expect the root of ypur problem is already fixed (the retransmit list
>> problem) however in the repos and latest released versions.
> 
> 
> I'll try to get an update as soon as possible. Thanks a lot!
>