[ClusterLabs] Final Pacemaker 2.0.3 release now available

[Digimer]

On 2019-11-27 7:27 p.m., Ken Gaillot wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 23:02 -0500, Digimer wrote:
>> Congrats!
>>
>> Can I ask, when might fencing become required? Is that still in the
>> works, or has it been shelved?
>>
>> digimer
> 
> tl;dr shelved
> 
> The original plan for 2.0.0 was to get rid of the stonith-enabled flag,
> but still allow disabling stonith via "requires=quorum" in
> rsc_defaults.
> 
> Certain resources, such as stonith devices themselves or simple nagios
> checks, can be immediately started elsewhere even if their original
> node needs to be fenced. requires=quorum was designed for such
> resources. Setting that for all resources would make fencing largely
> irrelevant.
> 
> That was shelved when I realized the code would have to be considerably
> more complicated to go that route. Also, someone could theoretically
> want "requires=quorum" for all resources while still wanting nodes to
> be fenced if they are lost.

Thanks for the update.

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