Dear Developers,
I would like to raise a discussion about an issue/feature about the maintenance
property applied to different levels of a cluster.
In order to explain the problem lets consider several examples.
Scenario 1. There is a primitive p1 in a group g1. When applying the
maintenance property to them, the most specific resource will take precedence.
Namely, if p1 has the maintenance property set, it will be used, otherwise, the
maintenance property of the g1 is used. It's ok.
Scenario 1. There is a clone of a group c1, group g1, and a primitive p1, that
belongs to the group g1. When we apply the maintenance attribute, the most
specific attribute takes precedence, but the attribute of the clone c1 may have
different value than the group and the primitive. It's strange, but still ok.
Scenario 3. There is a cluster with one node node1 and one primitive p1. This
time when setting the maintenance/maintenance-mode attribute to the
primitive/node1/default-property the p1 will be true when either one of them is
set to true. It means the most specific attribute don't precede anymore. One
may think it's the feature, but imho its a bug.
Scenario 4. There is only a primitive p1. We apply both: an is-managed
attribute and maintenance attribute. This is it will work as
is-managed maintenance | p1
false false | unmanaged
false true | unmanaged
true false | managed
true true | unmanaged
that works quite unexpectedly.
In the more complex scenarios, where the is-managed property is used together
with the maintenance, the status resources get unpredictable, which is
definitely not ok.
The counterargument is that it was always like this and the customers are used
to this behavior. They may remember that a certain combination of attributes
leads to a certain status and enforcing the most specific rule would lead to
the change of behaviour and backward incompatibility.
Please share your opinion about the issue, if we should leave it working as is
or enforce the most specific rule in though the whole cluster. And give a
priority to either one of the conflicting attributes (is-managed vs
maintenance).
Best regards,
Aleksei Burlakov
SUSE Senior Developer
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