[Cluster-devel] Question about /etc/init.d/cman start

[Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>]

On 08/29/2011 12:11 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> Yes, generally the fact that quorum is not achieved with N seconds is an
>> indication of something wrong in the cluster or the hw (for instance network
>> issues). Users prefer to see an error at that point, rather than keep executing
>> more daemons that will just make things more confusing on why it's not working
>> at higher levels (rgmanager or gfs) when the issue is at the bottom layers.
> 
> That sounds reasonable, but it seems that rgmanager is always started with:
> 
> /etc/init.d/rgmanager
> 
> So we have rgmanager running, but no dlm_controld and no fenced. Is it expected to
> work that way?

If dlm is not working, rgmanager will exit with error.

rgmanager does not use fenced directly so that's "irrelevant".

Fabio