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    Change the meaning of call_node_start_master · 91492e57
    Iustin Pop authored
    
    
    Currently, backend.StartMaster (the function behind this RPC call) will
    activate the master IP and then, if the start_daemons parameter is true,
    it will also activate the master role.
    
    While this works, it has two issues:
    
    - first, it will activate the master IP unconditionally, even if this
      node will not start the master daemon due to missing votes
    - second, the activation of the IP is done twice if start_daemons is
      true, because the master daemon does its own activation too
    
    This behaviour seems to be unmodified since Summer 2008, so probably any
    rationale on why this is done in two places is forgotten.
    
    The patch changes so that this function does *either* IP activation or
    master role activation but not both. So the IP will be activated only
    once (from the master daemon or from LURenameCluster), and it will only
    be done if the masterd got enough votes for startup.
    
    I can see only one downside to this change: if masterd won't actually
    start (due to missing votes), RAPI will still start, and without the
    master IP activated. But this is no worse than before, when both RAPI
    was running and the IP was activated.
    
    Note that the behaviour of StopMaster remains the same, as noone else
    does the IP removal.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRené Nussbaumer <rn@google.com>
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