Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Services Developer's Guide

Idempotency for Methods

In general, the RGM does not call a method more than once in succession on the same resource with the same arguments. However, if a Start method fails, the RGM could call a Stop method on a resource even though the resource was never started. Likewise, a resource daemon could die of its own accord and the RGM might still invoke its Stop method on it. The same scenarios apply to the Monitor_start and Monitor_stop methods.

For these reasons, you must build idempotency into your Stop and Monitor_stop methods, which means that repeated calls of Stop or Monitor_stop on the same resource with the same parameters achieve the same results as a single call.

One implication of idempotency is that Stop and Monitor_stop must return 0 (success) even if the resource or monitor is already stopped and no work is to done.


Note –

The Init, Fini, Boot, and Update methods must also be idempotent. A Start method need not be idempotent.