From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Teigland Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 12:12:54 -0500 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [DLM PATCH] dlm_controld: add option of enable_force_kick In-Reply-To: <1463386038-11341-1-git-send-email-zren@suse.com> References: <1463386038-11341-1-git-send-email-zren@suse.com> Message-ID: <20160516171254.GC20979@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 04:07:18PM +0800, Eric Ren wrote: > When there are 3 or more partitions that merge, none may see enough > clean nodes. Therefore, DLM would be stuck there forever unitl administrator > manually reset/restart enough nodes to produce sufficient clean nodes. > However, sometimes people hope that DLM can automatically recover from "useless" > state by forcing kick statefull merged nodes. > > The option of "enable_force_kick" defaults to "0"(disabled), which > remains the old way. Note that, enable this option at your own risk > because it's hard to predict which node (or none) will survive when both > sides of the merged partitions are kicking the other out of the cluster > at the same time. This looks good. Would you still use this patch if we add the new dlm_tool output from the other email? Dave