On 13/06/14 05:27, Angus Lees wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 05:06:38 PM Julien Danjou wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 12 2014, Matthew Booth wrote: >>> This looks interesting. It doesn't have hooks for fencing, though. >>> >>> What's the status of tooz? Would you be interested in adding fencing >>> hooks? >> >> It's maintained and developer, we have plan to use it in Ceilometer and >> others projects. Joshua also wants to use it for Taskflow. >> >> We are blocked for now by https://review.openstack.org/#/c/93443/ and by >> the lack of resource to complete that request obviously, so help >> appreciated. :) >> >> As for fencing hooks, it sounds like a good idea. > > As far as I understand these things, in distributed-locking-speak "fencing" > just means "breaking someone else's lock".
No. It means forcibly preventing a delinquent node from further use of the shared resource. An example of a fencing solution is a remote power switch. No trust is required. Matt -- Matthew Booth Red Hat Engineering, Virtualisation Team Phone: +442070094448 (UK) GPG ID: D33C3490 GPG FPR: 3733 612D 2D05 5458 8A8A 1600 3441 EA19 D33C 3490 _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev