[Linux-cluster] freezing a service

[Lon Hohberger]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:48 -0500, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:45 -0800, Michael Harrison wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to freeze a service, so that rgmanager effectively
> > ignores it? In other words, when doing maintenance on a production
> > cluster, it's sometimes necessary to stop the cluster services on that
> > node. When rgmanager comes down, I'd like it to leave whatever services
> > are running on the node alone, and not fail them over.

Also, there's a BZ open about supporting teardown/start w/o doing a
failover.

The 'freeze' function in head doesn't let you stop the cluster services,
but it lets you work on the service itself w/o rgmanager checking it or
moving it while you're performing maintenance.

-- Lon