[Pacemaker] [PATCH] Allow the user to insert a startup configuration

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:38:47PM +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:37:48AM +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> >> Anyone else interested in this feature being added?
>> >
>> > The configuration is not explicitely given to the cluster, but
>> > placed in a file. What happens on next startup? Who removes the
>> > file so that the cluster doesn't load it again? If the answer to
>> > the last question is "the admin", I'm against the feature.
>>
>> As I understand it, the intention is that the cluster always loads it.
>> I personally would have no use for such a feature[1], but it seems to
>> be a recurring theme so I'm reluctantly considering it.
>>
>> [1] It really only has an effect if the entire cluster is down anyway.
>
> Consider this: The static init cib is stored, the user starts the
> cluster and waits anxiously for the configuration to load, it's
> loaded yeah!, but there's a problem with resource x, let's see
> where's the issue, reading a few thousand lines of log, aha!,
> there it is, fixed, works!, great, everybody happy, everybody
> forgets about the static init cib; then next month there's a new
> release, put resource in not managed mode, stop cluster, upgrade,
> start cluster, load static init cib. That is bound to happen.
> What's wrong with cibadmin -C? Or crm configure load replace? One
> can even load from an url.

I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying that this is how the feature is
intended to work (and trying to gauge the interest in it).