[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 12/25] o2cb: Add ops add-heartbeat, remove-heartbeat and heartbeat-mode

[Sunil Mushran]

On 06/28/2010 11:03 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	I don't understand why we can't verify the uuid.  "A different
> system entirely" doesn't change the fact that it is useless to add a
> heartbeat for a disk the system can't see.
> 	Requiring the full path to a heartbeat device seems unfriendly
> when we can easily handle non-absolute paths.
>    

A sysadmin may choose to create the cluster.conf on his desktop
and populate it on all the nodes. This is one of the requirements.
--config-file has been added just for that purpose.

While a full path is a bit unfriendly, it is hardly limiting. Most users
provide full paths to devices anycase. In real life, /dev is rarely a cwd.