[Pacemaker] Multi-site support in pacemaker (tokens, deadman, CTR)

Andrew Beekhof andrew at beekhof.net
Mon May 16 03:55:13 EDT 2011


On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.de> wrote:
> On 2011-05-13T08:54:19, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
>
>> > No. Because starting/acquiring the resources would still depend on a
>> > "local" fence of the other side. This is protected against by our
>> > regular dependencies already.
>> >
>> > Or am I missing something still?
>> Possibly.
>> Couldn't both sides start shooting each other until one looses the token?
>
> Not more than before, though I'd expect a side that freshly rebooted to
> come up w/o any token.
>
> In general, the possibility for a fencing deathmatch is not different
> than before, though.

I disagree.
Before this, ignoring 2-node clusters for a moment, only one side has
quorum which is normally a requirement for fencing to begin.
With this, its more like no-quorum-policy=ignore where even a single
node can start shooting.




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