[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: Final Pacemaker 2.0.3 release now available

[Yan Gao]

On 11/26/19 8:33 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> schrieb am 26.11.2019 um 05:02 in Nachricht
> <37c840a6-9f63-28b9-0729-564d703300e2 at alteeve.ca>:
>> Congrats!
>>
>> Can I ask, when might fencing become required? Is that still in the
>> works, or has it been shelved?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It's a bit like freedom: 
Agreed. Although service providers could state by themselves that they 
don't officially support clusters without fencing enabled and properly 
configured :-)

> Free people are allowed even to do stupid things.
And it's not always stupid to do so. We've seen use cases where users 
don't really want node-level fencing, instead they only need 
"resource-level fencing" for example based on sfex or scsi2reservation.

Regards,
   Yan

> People are allowed tu run a cluster without fencing.
> Even if fencing were required, you could still implement fencing in a way that
> it does not work ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Ulrich
> 
> 
>>
>> digimer
>>
>> On 2019-11-25 9:32 p.m., Ken Gaillot wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The final release of Pacemaker version 2.0.3 is now available at:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/releases/tag/Pacemaker-2.0.3
>>>
>>> Highlights include:
>>>
>>> * A dynamic cluster recheck interval (you don't have to care about
>>> changing cluster-recheck-interval when using failure-timeout or most
>>> rules)
>>>
>>> * Pacemaker Remote options for security hardening (listen address and
>>> TLS priorities)
>>>
>>> * crm_mon supports the --output-as/--output-to options, has some tweaks
>>> to text and HTML output that will hopefully make it easier to read, has
>>> a correct count of disabled and blocked resources, and supports an
>>> option to set a stylesheet for HTML output
>>>
>>> * A new fence-reaction cluster option controls whether the local node
>>> stops pacemaker or panics the local host when notified of its own
>>> fencing (which can happen with fabric fencing agents such as
>>> fence_scsi)
>>>
>>> * Documentation improvements include a new chapter about ACLs
>>> (replacing an outdated text file) in "Pacemaker Explained" and another
>>> one about the command-line tools in "Pacemaker Administration":
>>>
>>>
>>
> https://clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/2.0/html-single/Pacemak
> 
>> er_Explained/index.html#idm47160746093920
>>>
>>>
>>
> https://clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/2.0/html-single/Pacemak
>> er_Administration/index.html#idm47051359032720
>>>
>>> As usual, there were bug fixes and log message improvements as well.
>>> Most significantly, a regression introduced in 2.0.2 that effectively
>>> disabled concurrent-fencing has been fixed, and an invalid transition
>>> (blocking all further resource actions) has been fixed when both a
>>> guest node or bundle and the host running it needs to be fenced, but
>>> can't (due to quorum loss, for example).
>>>
>>> For more details about changes in this release, see:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/blob/2.0/ChangeLog
>>>
>>> Many thanks to all contributors of source code to this release,
>>> including Aleksei Burlakov, Chris Lumens, Gao,Yan, Hideo Yamauchi, Jan
>>> Pokorný, John Eckersberg, Kazunori INOUE, Ken Gaillot, Klaus Wenninger,
>>> Konstantin Kharlamov, Munenari, Roger Zhou, S. Schuberth, Tomas
>>> Jelinek, and Yuusuke Iida.
>>>
>>> Version 1.1.22, with selected backports from this release, will also be
>>> released soon.
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Digimer
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