[Linux-HA] change a nvpair's value without restarting of a resource

[Max Hofer]

On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> On 9/19/07, Junko IKEDA <ikedaj at intellilink.co.jp> wrote:
> > > As I said "meta_attributes" were introduced with 2.1.0 so you can not
> > > use
> >
> > them
> >
> > > in 2.0.8 (they will not work).
> >
> > I was misled into thinking that just "--meta" option wouldn't work in
> > 2.0.8. It's too bad that I can not use "meta_attributes" in that version.
> >
> > > If you upgrade from 2.0.8 (at a later stage) you probably want to
> > > change
> >
> > your
> >
> > > CIB and put the nvpair regarding CRM related stuff into
> > > meta_attributes).
> > >
> > > From Andrew's answer i assume there is currently no "right" way to
> > > change
> >
> > the
> >
> > > parameters withouth resource restart.
> >
> > I'm going to try "--inhibit-policy-engine" first,
> > and report its behavior to our user.
> > I hope it can be a good answer.
>
> unlikely
>
> can we back up for a moment.... what is it that you're trying to achieve?
> perhaps there is a better way.
He would like to provide a new parameter (change resource instance_attributes 
nvpair) set to the OCF RA but without resource start.

I added a new feature reuqest for this (Bug 1707).


kind regards Max