On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:22:26PM -0600, Ryan O'Hara wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:09:58PM -0600, David Teigland wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:52:55PM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > > > > A node unfences *itself* when it boots up. As such, power-unfencing > > > > doesn't > > > > make sense; unfencing is only meant to reverse storage fencing. > > > > > > What can stop a user to run fence_node -U from another node to do remote > > > (un)fencing? > > > > It would work. Users can do anything they like, that's beside the point. > > > > The point is to make storage fencing more practical by automating storage > > unfencing. Otherwise, users have to invent ad hoc methods of doing it > > themselves, often manually. And, we end up solving the problem in painful, > > one-off cases like scsi_reserve/fence_scsi, which cry out for a better > > approach. > > I was going to ask about this. From the sounds of it, we could > elimiate the need for scsi_reserve completly. At least I can't think > of any reason that it could not me eliminated at this point.
Yep, that's the idea.
