[Cluster-devel] unfencing

[David Teigland]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:36:04PM -0600, Ryan O'Hara wrote:
> What happens if unfencing fails? Is it safe to say that a node that
> fails to unfence itself will be prohibited from joining the fence
> domain? This is important for fence_scsi, since unfencing is
> equivalient to re-registering with the scsi devices. Failure to
> unfence (ie. register) precludes that node from being able to fence
> other nodes. I'm not sure if other fencing methods have this type of
> requirement.

Good point, it would probably be as simple as init.d/cman exiting with a
failure if fence_node -U fails.

Dave