[Cluster-devel] unfencing (cman startup)

[Chrissie Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com>]

David Teigland wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:54:20PM +0000, Chrissie Caulfield wrote:
>>>>> Given the time at which fence_node -U will fire, you probably want to
>>>>> add a cman_init + cman_is_active + cman_finish loop in fence_node to
>>>>> make sure cman is ready to reply to our ccs queries, otherwise we might
>>>>> have a race condition at boot time (it might be already there.. didn't
>>>>> really check the code). All our daemons do that to give cman time to
>>>>> bootstrap.
>>>> Yes, good point.  I wonder if we'd be better off having cman_tool join
>>>> effectively do an is_active wait before exiting?  Then we could probably
>>>> avoid doing it many other places.  (It's also annoying when corosync crashes
>>>> after is_active completes, but before I've read what I need from cman/ccs.)
>> Err, cman_tool already does this with the -w switch, and the init script
>> uses it.
> 
> Great, so the constant flogging to add cman_is_active checks everywhere will
> end!?  Can I remove all my cman_is_active loops?

Yes.

And if it doesn't work, file a bug :)

Chrissie