From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:16:26 +0100
Subject: [Cluster-devel] RFC: generic improvement to fence agents api
In-Reply-To: <20110321170702.GA4306@redhat.com>
References: <4D844E8F.1050608@redhat.com> <20110321170702.GA4306@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <4D8787EA.8080200@fabbione.net>
List-Id: <cluster-devel.redhat.com>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 3/21/2011 6:07 PM, David Teigland wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 07:34:55AM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
>> My suggestion would be to allow to specify a list of ports instead.
> 
> This comes up now and then.  The current rule of one action per agent
> execution is a tried and true, fundamental property of the agent api.
> It should not be changed IMO.  I'll need some time to come up with the
> various specific reasons against it, but at least one of them (a big
> one) is partial failure/success.

No don?t waste your time on it. This is big enough to nullify the benefit.

Indeed it is something that I didn?t consider and would make the
recovery matrix from a failure scenario too complex to handle.

Thanks
Fabio