[ClusterLabs] questions about startup fencing

[Gao,Yan]

On 11/29/2017 04:54 PM, Ken Gaillot wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-11-29 at 14:22 +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
>> The same questions apply if this troublesome node was actually a
>> remote node running pacemaker_remoted, rather than the 5th node in
>> the
>> cluster.
> 
> Remote nodes don't join at the crmd level as cluster nodes do, so they
> don't "start up" in the same sense, and start-up fencing doesn't apply
> to them. Instead, the cluster initiates the connection when called for
> (I don't remember for sure whether it fences the remote node if the
> connection fails, but that would make sense).
According to link_rsc2remotenode() and handle_startup_fencing(), similar 
"startup-fencing applies to remote nodes too. So if a remote resource 
fails to start, the remote node will be fenced. A global setting 
statup-fencing=false will change the behavior for remote nodes too.

Regards,
   Yan