[Pacemaker] Problems with SBD fencing

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2013-08-21T18:15:39, Jan Christian Kaldestad <janck76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my case I should mention that stonithing works occasionally when the SBD
> resource is defined on one node only, but not too often. Unfortunately I
> can't seem to find a pattern when it's working or failing. What I'm curious
> about is the following lines in the log file:

That looks as if you're hitting a pacemaker bug. Please file a bug
report with NTS; I've not seen that in my testing.

> Of course there is no route to the other host, as the network interface is
> down on the other node. The SBD stonith operation shouldn't be dependent on
> the network connection at all?

Right. This is pacemaker/stonith-ng not knowing where to send the fence
request, it has nothing to do with sbd.

> I have also been testing another case where I define the SBD resource on
> both nodes (which is not recommended as I understand). In this case
> stonithing works just fine - always. Thus SBD messaging must be working as
> it should. I also tested to fence the other node with the sbd command, and
> it always works. So I'm still confused why SBD stonithing does not work
> when the resource is defined on one node only.

Pacemaker bug.


Regards,
    Lars

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