On 12/29/10 01:46, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:04:23PM +0100, Tobias Appel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have purchased Dr. Schwartzkopff's latest book (in German) about 
>> pacemaker. In his chapter about constraints he introduces the feature 
>> resource_set which sounds pretty neat. It would safe me quite some lines 
>> of configuration (for example I have like 40 individual resources which 
>> all require to be started after LVM - so currently I have 40 extra order 
>> constraints which I could fit into one using resource_set).
> 
> 40 order constraints? A big cluster.
> 
>> Though in his book he writes that this feature is quite new and might 
>> still be buggy and thus not recommended for productive use - I don't 
>> know though on which version of pacemaker he makes this assumption.
>>
>> Currently we use 1.1.2. At least in the GUI I don't see any option to 
>> use resource_set within another constraint. 
In the dialog for adding a constraint, for example "Add resource Order",
 you can click "Add" and select "Resource Set" to use it.

> Will the GUI still work if I 
>> manually add the required XML code to the cib?
> 
> Yes, the GUI should work. You can also use the crm shell to edit
> constraints. It should look sth like this:
> 
> order o inf: lvm ( rsc1 rsc2 ... rscn )
> 
> providing that rsc1 ... rscn don't depend on each other.
> 
>> And is this feature now safe to use?
> 
> Should be. But the number of resources you want to put into the
> set is unusually large. Try this first on a test cluster. It is
> also possible to use several constraints:
> 
> order o1 inf: lvm ( rsc1 rsc2 ... rscm )
> order o2 inf: lvm ( rscm+1 rscm+2 ... )
> ...
> 
>> Thanks in advance and happy new year to everyone.
> 
> Happy NY to you too.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dejan
> 
>> Bye,
>> Tobi

Regards,
  Yan
-- 
Yan Gao <[email protected]>
Software Engineer
China Server Team, OPS Engineering, Novell, Inc.
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