[Pacemaker] stonith-ng and old stonithd in pcmk 1.1

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:12:31PM +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Though you haven't made any announcement, it seems like the old
> > stonithd is removed from Pacemaker 1.1 and replaced by a brand
> > new stonith daemon. That's most probably the way to go, but I'm
> > worried because the new code didn't see much field testing.
> 
> Which is why we're not pushing it as a stable release yet...
> Though I have spent quite some time testing it myself, both manually
> and via cts.
> 
> The code has already been through a number of iterations, I'm quite
> confident in it.

I somehow learned never to be confident until the code went out
and has actually been used by others, not only me :)

> > Is there a way to keep the old stonithd and allow users to choose
> > which stonith daemon to use at runtime?
> 
> Nope.  People concerned by this should continue using 1.0 (which will
> remain the current "frozen" stable series until 1.2 comes out) and
> wait until others report its ok.

That unfortunately leaves SLES11SP1 in an awkward situation,
since it seems like we'll use v1.1.

Cheers,

Dejan


> _______________________________________________
> Pacemaker mailing list
> Pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
> http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker