[Pacemaker] no-quorum-policy = demote?

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 27 May 2014, at 3:12 pm, Gao,Yan <ygao at suse.com> wrote:

> On 05/27/14 08:07, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>> 
>> On 26 May 2014, at 10:47 pm, Christian Ciach <dereineda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am sorry to get back to this topic, but I'm genuinely curious:
>>> 
>>> Why is "demote" an option for the ticket "loss-policy" for multi-site-clusters but not for the normal "no-quorum-policy" of local clusters? This seems like a missing feature to me.
>> 
>> Or one feature too many.
>> Perhaps Yan can explain why he wanted demote as an option for the loss-policy.
> Loss-policy="demote" is a kind of natural default if the "Master" mode
> of a resource requires a ticket like:
> <rsc_ticket rsc="ms1" rsc-role="Master" ticket="ticketA"/>
> 
> The idea is for running stateful resource instances across clusters. And
> loss-policy="demote" provides the possibility if there's the need to
> still run the resource in slave mode for any reason when losing the
> ticket, rather than stopping it or fencing the node hosting it.

I guess the same logic applies to the single cluster use-case too and we should allow no-quorum-policy=demote.

One question though... do we still stop non-master/slave resources for loss-policy=demote?  

> 
> Regards,
>  Yan
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> Christian
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2014-04-07 9:54 GMT+02:00 Christian Ciach <dereineda at gmail.com>:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am using Corosync 2.0 with Pacemaker 1.1 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 (daily builds until final release).
>>> 
>>> My problem is as follows: I have a 2-node (plus a quorum-node) cluster to manage a multistate-resource. One node should be the master and the other one the slave. It is absolutely not allowed to have two masters at the same time. To prevent a split-brain situation, I am also using a third node as a quorum-only node (set to standby). There is no redundant connection because the nodes are connected over the internet.
>>> 
>>> If one of the two nodes managing the resource becomes disconnected, it loses quorum. In this case, I want this resource to become a slave, but the resource should never be stopped completely! This leaves me with a problem: "no-quorum-policy=stop" will stop the resource, while "no-quorum-policy=ignore" will keep this resource in a master-state. I already tried to demote the resource manually inside the monitor-action of the OCF-agent, but pacemaker will promote the resource immediately again.
>>> 
>>> I am aware that I am trying the manage a multi-site-cluster and there is something like the booth-daemon, which sounds like the solution to my problem. But unfortunately I need the location-constraints of pacemaker based on the score of the OCF-agent. As far as I know location-constraints are not possible when using booth, because the 2-node-cluster is essentially split into two 1-node-clusters. Is this correct?
>>> 
>>> To conclude: Is it possible to demote a resource on quorum loss instead of stopping it? Is booth an option if I need to manage the location of the master based on the score returned by the OCF-agent?
>>> 
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> 
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> Gao,Yan <ygao at suse.com>
> Software Engineer
> China Server Team, SUSE.
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