On 7/5/2010 at 04:54 PM, Andrew Beekhof <and...@beekhof.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Tim Serong <tser...@novell.com> wrote: > > On 6/30/2010 at 09:42 PM, Andrew Beekhof <and...@beekhof.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Lars Marowsky-Bree <l...@novell.com> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > another idea that goes along with the previous post are cluster-wide > >> > attributes. Similar to per-node attributes, but basically a special > >> > section in <configuration>: > >> > > >> > <optional> > >> > <element name="cluster_attributes"> > >> > <zeroOrMore> > >> > <element name="attributes"> > >> > <externalRef href="nvset.rng"/> > >> > </element> > >> > </zeroOrMore> > >> > </element> > >> > </optional> > >> > >> Do we need a new section? Or can they go in with cluster-infrastructure > >> etc? > >> > >> > These then would also be referencable in the various dependencies like > >> > node attributes, just globally. > >> > > >> > Question - > >> > > >> > 1. Do we want to treat them like true node attributes, i.e., per-node > >> > attributes would override the cluster-wide settings - or as indeed a > >> > completely separate class? I lean towards the latter, but would solicit > >> > some more opinions. > >> > >> Not sure it really gives you anything by making them a separate class. > >> does > >> it? > >> Just means you have to look twice right? > > > > Just for the record, a use case of this came up on IRC last week: > > you could specify cluster-wide standby="on", so new nodes joining the > > cluster would automatically join in standby mode, with the admin > > activating them later (per-node standby="off" thus overriding cluster- > > wide attribute). > > That doesn't necessarily mean they need to be a separate class though.
No, not at all. I'm just adding to the conversation in an unnecessarily confusing fashion :) Tim -- Tim Serong <tser...@novell.com> Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc. _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://developerbugs.linux-foundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Pacemaker
