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Description of problem: SBD is not a super active upstream project but recently there had been a couple of interesting changes (sbd on 2-node-clusters, proper behaviour on watchdog set to poweroff, ...). So it is much cleaner and easier to support to base on the upstream version and patch what we want differently instead of doing it the other way round.
On top of the bugs mentioned just minor things like Manpage-fixes. A lot of upstream changes affect scripts we are not packaging. Others might have severe impact but usually won't trigger. Fixes in handling of servant-names - like preventing duplicates of servants, false-positives in device matching if one device is a substring of the other. There are 2 outstanding PRs that sound interesting. A cleanup of the cmdline-switches that as well shouldn't affect our setups as we are using the environment-variables through pcs. Have the cluster-servant check connectivity to corosync + get quorum from there directly - so that it would fail on quorum-loss right away instead of waiting for pacemaker-servant to fail indirectly.
Steven: Thanks I guess your edit is fine. I had bluntly pasted in the release-note which in turn was very much inspired by the individual commit-messages. Some of the changes coming in with the upstream-release we had already in 7.4 as extra patches. I didn't mention that extra. Do you think we should?
Chris, Steven: 'Configurable' here means at build time! If we go that route we would have to remove e.g. the fixes to sbd.sh as well which we don't package with RHEL.
I could add "at build time" to the bullet noted in comment 7. Chris, would that address your concern?
Klaus: Re, your question in Comment 6: Are the changes ones that a user moving from 7.4 to 7.5 will care about? That is, if they were in 7.4 patches my first guess is to say we probably don't need to include them here, but the point is really to let people know about things that could affect them with this release.
Steven: If we go with the definition to mention just what introduces changes visible to the rhel-7.5-user in comparison to rhel-7.4 we would stay with: * Adds commands to test and query watchdog devices * Overhauls the command-line options and configuration file * Properly handles "off" actions instead of "reboot" Everything else is either irrelevant for how we currently build sbd for rhel or it replaces rhel-patches by upstream-code (mostly 1-1 the same code).
Klaus: I'll make those deletions, which is consistent with what Chris notes as well.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0924