RE: cfengine failover on copy does not seem to work as documented

[Mark Burgess]

Steve et al,

failover works only if there is failure to connect to the host
concerned. if some other behavioural policy is desired it would have to
be configurable.

In general "server is up but file not found" is an admin error, not a
failover condition. Aimlessly searching for files that don't exist or
are misspellt would be fruitless in general.

Mark

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:39 -0500, Nielsen, Steve wrote:
> Fearless leader Mark Burgess... can  you please comment on this thread?
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+snielsen=comscore.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+snielsen=comscore.com@gnu.org] On Behalf
> Of Nielsen, Steve
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:56 AM
> To: Chip Seraphine; Cfengine Mailing List Help
> Subject: RE: cfengine failover on copy does not seem to work as
> documented
> 
> I agree that failover should only trigger on error conditions. Is that
> what you mean (how I am interpreting what you say below)?
> 
> I was hoping to find out from Mark if this is how its intended to work
> (only failover on network reachability) or if this is a bug  or
> oversight ?
> 
> Mark any comments ?
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chip Seraphine [mailto:chip@trdlnk.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: Nielsen, Steve; Cfengine Mailing List Help
> Subject: Re: cfengine failover on copy does not seem to work as
> documented
> 
> Nielsen, Steve wrote:
> 
> >I would think any of these errors should also trigger the failover
> >class:
> >
> >* server is up but file not found
> >* copy is local but file not found
> >
> >Comments ?
> >  
> >
> I'd rather have it simply triggered when we have any result other than 
> either a sucessful copy *or* the copy is not attempted.   That would 
> also catch things like "server up, file found but unreadable" (happens 
> when you are reading from an NFS server with root squashed).
> 
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