On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Lars Ellenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 11:35:19AM +0200, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
>> Am 01.04.2011 11:27, schrieb Florian Haas:
>> > On 2011-04-01 10:49, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
>> >> Am 01.04.2011 10:27, schrieb Andrew Beekhof:
>> >>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Lars Ellenberg
>> >>> <[email protected]>   wrote:
>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:18:07PM +0100, Christoph Bartoschek wrote:
>> >>>>> I am missing the state: running degraded or suboptimal.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Yep, "degraded" is not a state available for pacemaker.
>> >>>> Pacemaker cannot do much about "suboptimal".
>> >>>
>> >>> I wonder what it would take to change that.  I suspect either a
>> >>> crystal ball or way too much knowledge of drbd internals.
>> >>
>> >> The RA would be responsible to check this. For drbd any diskstate
>> >> different from UpToDate/UpToDate is suboptimal.
>> >
>> > Have you actually looked at the resource agent? It does already evaluate
>> > the disk state and adjusts the master preference accordingly. What else
>> > is there to do?
>>
>> Maybe I misunderstood Andrew's comment. I read it this way:  If we
>> introduce a new state "suboptimal", would it be hard to detect it?
>>
>> I just wanted to express that detecting suboptimality seems not to be
>> that hard.
>
> But that state is useless for pacemaker,
> since it cannot do anything about it.

Looks like a lot of people, including myself, are still confused with
this statement. Basically this state of DRBD resource is unstable and
resource is unusable, why do you think that this is normal for
Pacemaker to report a such state as Ok state?

>
> I thought I made that clear.
>
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