[ClusterLabs] [EXT] Re: Fence Agents Format

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 28.07.2023 09:46, Windl, Ulrich wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On " Manual fencing or meatware is when an administrator must manually power-cycle a machine (or unplug its storage cables) and follow up with the cluster, notifying the cluster that the machine has been fenced. This is never recommended.": Maybe also explain why: The cluster assumes that fencing is complete after some timeout.his

This is wrong. Do not generalize SBD or self suicide to general fencing.

Meatware was deprecated years ago to my best knowledge, now there is 
"stonith_admin -C" which does the same.