Hi Satomi-san,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 07:07:00PM +0900, Satomi TANIGUCHI wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found that there are 2 problems when DC node is STONITH'ed.
> (1) STONITH operation is executed two times.

This has been discussed at length in bugzilla, see

http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1904

which was resolved with WONTFIX. In short, it was deemed to risky
to implement a remedy for this problem.  Of course, if you think
you can add more to the discussion, please go ahead.

> (2) Timeout-value which stonithd on DC node waits to reply
>     the result of STONITH op from other node is
>     always set to "stonith-timeout" in <cluster_property_set>.
> [...] 
> The case (2):
> When this timeout occurs on stonithd on DC
> during non-DC node's stonithd tries to reset DC,
> DC-stonithd will send a request to other node,
> and two or more STONITH plugins are executed in parallel.
> This is a troublesome problem.
> The most suitable value as this timeout might be
> the sum total of "stonith-timeout" of STONITH plugins on the node
> which is going to receive the STONITH request from DC node, I think.

This would probably be very difficult for the CRM to get.

> But DC node can't know that...
> I would like to hear your opinions.

Sorry, but I couldn't exactly follow. Could you please describe
it in terms of actions.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Best Regards,
> Satomi TANIGUCHI


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