[Linux-cluster] RE: qdisk votes not in cman

Dave Costakos david.costakos at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 21:03:38 UTC 2007


For my part, I'd at least like to see an error message logged.  Would've
saved us all some time here.



On 9/12/07, Lon Hohberger <lhh at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:05:43AM +0200, Alain Richard wrote:
> >
> > Le 4 sept. 07 à 23:13, Lon Hohberger a écrit :
> >
> > >On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:46:50PM +0200, Alain RICHARD wrote:
> > >>Perhaps a better error reporting is needed in qdiskd to shows that we
> > >>have hit this problem. Also using a generic name like "qdisk device"
> > >>when qdiskd is registering its node to cman is a better approach.
> > >
> > >What about using the label instead of the device name, and restricting
> > >the label to 16 chars when advertising to cman?
>
> > Because when using multipath devices (for example a two paths
> > device), all the paths and the multi-path device are recognized as
> > having the same label, so qdisk fails to get the good device (the
> > multi-path device).
>
> I meant implementation-wise, using the label instead of the device name
> to solve or work around the 16 character limit when talking to CMAN...
>
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