On 2006-05-20T10:51:53, Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you implying that the only part affected is the LRM?
>
> There are a couple of things that surprise me about this.
>
> If you leave the name spaces mingled in the GUI (and the CIB,
> presumably), then the name space clashes will still happen.
He's not suggesting that. This is about storing the meta attributes not
within the "attributes" element within the instance_attributes, but
within a new "meta_attributes".
> If you put conversion logic in place that automatically converts from
> the old form to the new form, then the current names are still reserved
> - it's just not as obvious.
This could be turned off after the setup has been sanitized, or
automatically (as Andrew suggests, when the first meta_attributes
section is seen for a resource).
> If you wrote an external conversion script that you could run on a
> one-shot basis, then that would be helpful - but wouldn't be the right
> thing to do until a cluster was completely converted over to the new
> names (and you'd hope you don't have to fail over in this interval).
Right, a script to do this conversion could be done.
> "What you're going to do, do quickly" (Jn 13:27). Because the longer
> this drags on, the worse the problem will be.
>
> This is _exactly_ the kind of thing you'd like to have settled by the
> time of a major release - so that the legacy problems will be minimal.
Thanks for your guidance on this matter after the fact ;-)
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée
--
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
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