[Cluster-devel] Re: Groupd uevent clean up

[Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:28 -0600, David Teigland wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:07:56AM +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > LOCKTABLE=<clustername:fsname>
> > LOCKPROTO=[lock_dlm|lock_nolock]
> > 
> > to avoid all the messy parsing of the initial event string. Also I've
> > added come further information to the two "change" events, so that we
> > now have:
> > 
> > FIRSTMOUNT=Done
> > 
> > when the first mounter has finished and:
> > 
> > JID=<journal_id>
> > RECOVERY=[Done|Failed]
> > 
> > when recovery has finished. Is there anything else that is useful I
> > wonder, while I'm adding new items here? I think I've covered the
> > important bits anyway.
> 
> That's excellent, much better than the sysfs files.  We'll need to keep
> the sysfs files around for a while, though, so we don't break the
> user/kernel interface.
> 
> Dave
> 
We also need to change groupd and the reason that I didn't resend that
original patch is that with these new bits of information, it might be
better to implement something a bit more generic, so that it picks up
all the right bits of information. Shouldn't be too tricky to keep it
backwards compatible either,

Steve.