[Pacemaker] Feature request: cleanup resource on primitive definition change

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Vladislav Bogdanov
<bubble at hoster-ok.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew, all,
>
> I'm now testing latest changes in git, everything goes much cleaner then
> a week ago, I'll (hopefully) make report later.
>
> One feature came into mind during testing:
> Imagine resource which was tried to be started on all nodes and failed
> everywhere.
> Then administrator changes resource definition to fix start problem.
> Now, resource is not tried to start until it is cleaned up (or both its
> failure-timeout passes and cluster state re-checked).
> Idea is to make automatic resource cleanup after definition change.

Not good if the device wasn't failed.
Imagine someone changing the 'ip' for an IPaddr resource, the old
value would never be removed.

>
> That would help those who use some automatic tools to manage pacemaker
> resources.
>
> Btw, I did not find cluster-recheck-interval in pacemaker explained
> "Cluster options" chapter together with stop-all-resources,
> maintenance-mode and placement-strategy. Former option described only in
> chapter about rules, others are not mentioned at all.
>
> Best,
> Vladislav
>
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