[Linux-cluster] Priority in failover domains sometimes not honoured

[Jos Vos]

Hi,

I have the following failover domains:

      <failoverdomains>
              <failoverdomain name="prio_host1" ordered="1" restricted="1">
                      <failoverdomainnode name="host1" priority="1"/>
                      <failoverdomainnode name="host2" priority="2"/>
              </failoverdomain>
              <failoverdomain name="prio_host2" ordered="1" restricted="1">
                      <failoverdomainnode name="host1" priority="2"/>
                      <failoverdomainnode name="host2" priority="1"/>
              </failoverdomain>
      </failoverdomains>

But often a service for, say, "prio_host2" stays running on host1,
(or vice versa), while both hosts are running fine.  In a "stable"
situation, that service should be moved to host2, AFAIK (and I
have seen this happen in some situations).

This is on RHEL 5.0.

Is this a bug or...?

Thanks,

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