On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:16, Junko IKEDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > The latest Pacemaker 1.0 can help our problem which I posted to the
>> > following entry.
>> > http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1990
>> >
>> > A split brain under 4 nodes circumstances can be recovered successfully!
>> > It seems that these patches have the effect for this behavior.
>> > http://hg.clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/stable-1.0/rev/fd4066e9888d
>> > http://hg.clusterlabs.org/pacemaker/stable-1.0/rev/7508f211e536
>> >
>> > Could it be possible to reflect these patches to Heartbeat 2.1.4 tree?
>>
>> No.  The 2.1.4 tree is closed.
>> Do we really need to keep having this conversation?
>
> No, I may sound like I'm repeating myself, but our customer plans to take
> Heartbeat 2.1.4 soon,
> so I have to ask it again.
> sorry for bother you.
> Do you believe that the above two patches have efficacy as recovering split
> brain of joining some additional nodes?

It would prevent some extra (unnecessary and probably plain wrong)
fencing operations, but wont have any impact on the underlying
membership layer.


> If so, it might be a good promotional point to recommend Pacemaker to the
> customer.

Its not really about Pacemaker - more the underlying cluster stack.
If the cluster tells Pacemaker that the membership hasn't reformed,
then there's not a lot it can do about it (other than possibly shoot
the node again).

If anything, it might be a reason to give OpenAIS a go...
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