[pve-devel] [RFC ha-manager v2 5/7] allow LRM lock stealing for fenced nodes

[Dietmar Maurer]

> To summarize the possible states:
> * the node is fenced and stays until someone comes and checks it
> (through switch, power, ... - fencing) - here we can do everything with
> the lock we want
> * the node comes back immediately (reset) because someone thought this
> was a good way to setup the fence agents (it really isn't) and is

so we suggest to 'stop' nodes by fence agents (instead of restart)?

> through a wonder fully functional. Here it sees oh I'm in the fence
> state, thus it doesn't even tries to get the lock and start anything
> (thus lock stealing and time out is fine here). Or the lock
> stealing/timeout (both "same" effect in this context) already happened
> and the service are recovered.
> 
> any thoughts? Do I have a really faulty reasoning somewhere?

sounds reasonable to me.