[Cluster-devel] RFC: generic improvement to fence agents api

[Fabio M. Di Nitto]

On 3/21/2011 6:07 PM, David Teigland wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 07:34:55AM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
>> My suggestion would be to allow to specify a list of ports instead.
> 
> This comes up now and then.  The current rule of one action per agent
> execution is a tried and true, fundamental property of the agent api.
> It should not be changed IMO.  I'll need some time to come up with the
> various specific reasons against it, but at least one of them (a big
> one) is partial failure/success.

No don´t waste your time on it. This is big enough to nullify the benefit.

Indeed it is something that I didn´t consider and would make the
recovery matrix from a failure scenario too complex to handle.

Thanks
Fabio