[Maas-devel] RFC: "Serialising" power actions

[Julian Edwards]

On Thursday 18 Sep 2014 11:39:53 Gavin Panella wrote:
> > You can stop it but you will have no idea what in state the node will
> > end up. Did the operation work but you cancelled it before the final
> > ack? Or did it get cancelled early enough to actually stop it?
> 
> It doesn't matter. A power command is now more than fire-and-forget: it
> seeks to leave the node in the requested state. If it fails to do so, it
> marks the node as broken.

Sorry, I've no idea how that relates to cancellation.  Are you saying that if 
someone cancels a power op it should mark the node as broken?