[ClusterLabs] VirtualDomain & parallel shutdown

[Jan Pokorný]

On 27/11/18 14:35 +0100, Jan Pokorný wrote:
> On 27/11/18 12:29 +0200, Klecho wrote:
>> Big thanks for the answer, but I in your ways around I don't see a solution
>> for the following simple case:
>> 
>> I have a few VMs (VirtualDomain RA) and just want and to stop a few of them,
>> not all.
>> 
>> While the first VM is shutting down (target-role=stopped), it starts some
>> slow update, which could take hours (because of the possible update case,
>> stop timeout is very big).
>> 
>> During these hours of update, no other VM can be stopped at all.
>> 
>> If this isn't avoidable, this could be a quite big flaw, because it blocks
>> basic functionality.
> 
> It looks like having transition "leaves", i.e. particular executive
> manipulations like stop/start operations, last in order of tens of
> minutes and longer is not what's pacemaker design had in mind,
> as opposed ot pushing asychronicity to the extreme (at the cost
> of complexity of the "orthogonality/non-interference tests",
> I think).

Also note that, moreover, extended periods of time in the context
of executing particular OCF/LSB resource operations can result in
relatively serious troubles under some failure scenarios unless
the agents are written in a self-defensive manner (and carefully
tested in practice):

https://lists.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/users/2019-January/016045.html

-- 
Nazdar,
Jan (Poki)
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