[Linux-cluster] post fail fencing

[David Teigland]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:13:04PM +0200, Kaloyan Kovachev wrote:
> Hello,
>  i would like to have one specific node to always fence any other failed node
> and some nodes to never try to fence. For example in 4 or 5 nodes cluster:
> Node1 is fencing any other failed, Node2 and Node3 will try fencing some time
> later (in case the failed node is Node1) and Node4/Node5 should never try to
> fence others
> 
>  What is the possible/recommended way to do this?

The node with the lowest nodeid that was present in the last completed
configuration will do the fencing.  You may be able to exploit that fact
to get what you want, but there's no explicit control over it.

Dave