On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 16:17, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> The timeouts are taken from the "start" operation. Even though it
>>> may not be obvious that this timeout is used for the fencing
>>> operations as well, I think that it still makes more sense than
>>> making an extra instance attribute. Any objections?
>> Maybe, users are at a loss what to do when they want to set fence op's
>> timeout, I think.
>> Adding "stonith-timeout" in <instance_attributes> seems to be a better way...
>
> It would be very easy to implement that. But I'm still not sure
> if that's really a better way. Currently, the timeout is picked
> from the start operation and, if that's not set, from the fencing
> request which comes either from the crmd or stonithd itself.
> Well, if you insist, we could have the instance attribute
> override all other timeouts.

Can we please pick one way and go with that?  (I don't much care which).
There is such a thing (as exemplified by the 0.6 configuration) as
_too_ much choice.
>>> That's how it works right now. The users should take care of
>>> setting the cluster_delay properly, i.e. to the maximum possible
>>> stonith timeout and then double that. Right?
>> All right.
>
> Andrew set this one straight. The cluster_delay shouldn't
> influence the fencing operations.

Correct.  Now that stonith operations have their own timeouts, the
cluster should simply wait forever for it to return (except of course
if stonithd dies :-)
So if you find cluster_delay is being used, its a bug.
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