[Openais] Proposed change to default nodeid generation

[Mark Fasheh]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:31:16AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > Not so much "uses" as "lets openais do its thing because its none of our 
> > business" :-)
> 
> 	Well, sure.  Some people do like specific node numbers - it
> helps you identify which node is failing, etc - but many environments
> don't need that.  Especially if we build tools that allow us to identify
> nodes specifically without the node numbers.

Btw, it's not about whether an admin wants a specific node number or not.
It's about which layer is coming up with the node number. I completely agree
with Andrew, that fundamentally, pacemaker just wants to get node numbers
from openais (validity checking aside). Of course we're here because that
doesn't *quite* work for some consumers which we all care about  :)


> > It also presents problems when/if different pieces want to use
> > different allocation schemes.
> 
> 	But you wouldn't be in those places.  If you want to use fs/dlm,
> you have to have this set of nodeids.  If you don't, you don't.  You
> can't interact between the two sets anyway, because the non-fs/dlm-safe
> ids can't use fs/dlm.

Maybe he meant "different schemes of coming up with otherwise valid
nodeids"? For example, maybe the ip munging code is slightly different
between plugins, etc. Anyway, I think Steve makes a better point about this
in a later e-mail.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh