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 -- Need help with fencing? http://www.hastexo.com/now _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
