From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lon Hohberger Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:37:16 -0400 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: <20110321173715.GH991@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, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:07:02PM -0400, 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. All or nothing -- Some devices actually support port grouping; turn off port "Foo" and it operates on plugs 1,2,3 at the same time. -- Lon Hohberger - Red Hat, Inc.