On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:48:29AM +0200, Florian Haas wrote: > >> We actually discussed node defaults a while back. Those would be > >> similar to resource and op defaults which Pacemaker already has, and > >> set defaults for node attributes for newly joined nodes. At the time > >> the idea was to support putting new joiners in standby mode by > >> default, so when you added a node in a symmetric cluster, you wouldn't > >> need to be afraid that Pacemaker would shuffle resources around.[1]
> >> [1] Yes, semi-doable with putting the cluster into maintenance mode > >> before firing up the new node, setting that node into standby, and > >> then unsetting maintenance mode. But that's just an additional step > >> that users can easily forget about. > > > > Why not simply add the node to the cib, and set it to standby, > > before it even joins for the first time. > > Haha, good one. > > Wait, you weren't joking? Nope. "Works for me". Not that I do that very often, but I did, and it worked. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list: Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org
