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May 3, 2011, 7:05 AM
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Re: [Openais] An OCF agent for LXC (Linux Containers) - Linux-HA-Dev Digest, Vol 90, Issue 1
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Hi,
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:07:45PM +0930, Darren Thompson wrote:
> Lars/Team
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> I agree.
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> I can understand that there are some parameters that are MANDATORY and
> UNPREDICTABLE, but there are just as likely to be parameters that are
> MANDATORY and have a REASONABLE DEFAULT VALUE.
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> As an example, the IP address is Mandatory and Unpredictable, but the
> path too and name of a configuration file (although still Mandatory)
> could have a Reasonable Default Value (although there may still be merit
> in allowing it to be overridden to provide localisations etc).
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> I think it's too extreme to force all mandatory value to not be given
> default values, as (for example this particular case), there are a few
> mandatory values that do have reasonable defaults that could be used, in
> most cases.
If the parameter is required (mandatory) under which
circumstances can the default be used? If you want to let the
user _not_ specify a parameter and use the default, then the
parameter is optional. I really don't understand why all the
confusion.
Thanks,
Dejan
> Darren
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> On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 12:00 -0600,
> linux-ha-dev-request [at] lists wrote:
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> > Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 20:49:41 +0200
> > From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb [at] novell>
> > Subject: Re: [Linux-ha-dev] [Openais] An OCF agent for LXC (Linux
> > Containers)
> > To: High-Availability Linux Development List
> > <linux-ha-dev [at] lists>
> > Message-ID: <20110501184941.GR17955 [at] suse>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> > On 2011-04-26T16:03:48, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejan [at] suse> wrote:
> >
> > > - the "required" attributes in meta-data need to be reviewed,
> > > a parameter is either required or has a default, cannot be
> > > both
> >
> > Why would this be the case?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Lars
> >
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