On 2011-10-18 12:12, Alberic de Pertat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently in the process of writing a fencing agent for VMware
> vCenter. After some tests, I noticed that the stonith command is turning
> the nodename to lowercase.
> 
> The problem is that almost every VM in my inventory is uppercase with
> some mixed case too. VMware allows you to have two VM with the same name
> but different cases.

Gah. That sounds like a great way to go insane, or drive someone else
nuts. I really wonder why on earth anyone would want to do this.

> I cannot find a proper way to deal with this as a
> case insensitive search through the inventory could yield more than one
> result.
> 
> Looking through the stonith command source (Mercurial HEAD), I found the
> following in stonith.c (l. 456) : 
> 
>   g_strdown(nodecopy);
> 
> Is there a reason for this ?

I suppose Dejan will accept a patch making this configurable.

Cheers,
Florian

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