[Linux-HA] Starting non-idle resources

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2008-06-02T16:56:29, Nuno Covas <nuno.covas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have a Heartbeat implementation that may need to deal with non-idle
> resources at startup and be able to stop them in case they are already
> being served. It is not critical that both machines cannot serve the
> same resource for a limited amount of time, but it is bad if heartbeat
> doesn't actively stop the resource.
> 
> Is there any way HB can actively stop a non-idle resource at startup?

Heartbeat 2.x and Pacemaker both already do exactly this.

There's a "multiple_active" setting which details how to deal with this
case - the default is to stop them all and start one, if I'm not
mistaken.

Happy to serve ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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