BTW, here's the 'rm' section of my cluster.conf for this cluster:

	<rm log_facility="local4" log_level="10">
		<failoverdomains>
			<failoverdomain name="rtmdb_failover" ordered="0" restricted="0">
				<failoverdomainnode name="rtmdb1" priority="1"/>
				<failoverdomainnode name="rtmdb2" priority="1"/>
			</failoverdomain>
		</failoverdomains>
		<resources/>
		<service autostart="1" domain="rtmdb_failover" exclusive="0" name="rtmdb" recovery="restart">
			<ip address="10.43.36.139" monitor_link="1">
				<fs device="/dev/mapper/sanvg-vol1" force_fsck="0" force_unmount="1" fsid="6845" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/dbr" name="/dbr" options="defaults" self_fence="1">
					<mysql config_file="/etc/my.cnf" listen_address="10.43.36.139" name="rtm-mysql" shutdown_wait="180"/>
				</fs>
			</ip>
		</service>
	</rm>

Created attachment 329977 [details]
Adds startup_wait option 

This patch adds a support for startup_wait for mysql resource agent. After applying this patch it will be possible to configure timeout directly from cluster.conf

Rock On Marek!  The test patch works for me in our test lab.

Is this likely to be made generally available ?  If so, when ?

I believe it will be in next update, so 5.4

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