[ClusterLabs] starting primitive resources of a group without starting the complete group - unclear behaviour

[Lentes, Bernd]

----- On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:24 AM, Ken Gaillot kgaillot at redhat.com wrote:

> On 04/20/2017 02:53 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote:

> 
> target-role=Stopped prevents a resource from being started.
> 
> In a group, each member of the group depends on the previously listed
> members, same as if ordering and colocation constraints had been created
> between each pair. So, starting a resource in the "middle" of a group
> will also start everything before it.

What is the other way round ? Starting the first of the group ? Will the subsequent follow ?


> 
> Everything in the group inherits this target-role=Stopped. However,
> prim_vnc_ip_mausdb has its own target-role=Started, which overrides that.
> 
> I'm not sure what target-role was on each resource at each step in your
> tests, but the behavior should match that.
> 

I have to admit that i'm struggling with the meaning of "target-role".
What does it really mean ? The current status of the resource ? The status of the resource the cluster should try
to achieve ? Both ? Nothing of this ? Could you clarify that to me ?


Thanks.


Bernd
 

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