AW: [Linux-HA] [patch] failback doesn't work if primary restartedin <deadtime

[Alan Robertson]

Martin Bene wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> 
>>>The auto_failback feature of heartbeat-1.2.0 doesn't seem 
>>>to work when heartbeat processes of the primary node are 
>>>stopped gracefully and
>>>restarted in shorter interval than deadtime.  
> 
> 
>>We noticed this bug just before 1.2.0 went out - but too late 
>>to fix it.
>>
>>Have you tested this patch?
>>
>>If so, it's much simpler than anything I had come up with ;-)
> 
> 
> So the problem is fixed in current development, but using a different
> approach?
> 
> PS: Any objection to including this patch in the gentoo ebuild for
> heartbeat 1.2.0? Another patch that's needed for gentoo is the makefile
> fixup for /telecom/checkpointd/Makefile* to honor $(DESTDIR); won't be
> needed for future version as that's already in CVS.

No, it's not fixed. But, I'd been thinking about how to fix it.  But 
someone said it didn't work, so I was confused...

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     Alan Robertson <alanr at unix.sh>

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