From ee5b39071ea160feab985941776bc04af2a8883e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Preetha Appan <preetha@hashicorp.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:39:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Change the default mode for client side restarts to fail from
 delay

---
 nomad/structs/structs.go                              | 4 ++--
 website/source/docs/job-specification/restart.html.md | 7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nomad/structs/structs.go b/nomad/structs/structs.go
index 2a894d7a3..a3674c2fd 100644
--- a/nomad/structs/structs.go
+++ b/nomad/structs/structs.go
@@ -2514,13 +2514,13 @@ var (
 		Delay:    15 * time.Second,
 		Attempts: 2,
 		Interval: 1 * time.Minute,
-		Mode:     RestartPolicyModeDelay,
+		Mode:     RestartPolicyModeFail,
 	}
 	defaultBatchJobRestartPolicy = RestartPolicy{
 		Delay:    15 * time.Second,
 		Attempts: 15,
 		Interval: 7 * 24 * time.Hour,
-		Mode:     RestartPolicyModeDelay,
+		Mode:     RestartPolicyModeFail,
 	}
 )
 
diff --git a/website/source/docs/job-specification/restart.html.md b/website/source/docs/job-specification/restart.html.md
index 13e694a40..967fd033b 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/job-specification/restart.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/job-specification/restart.html.md
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ description: |-
   </tr>
 </table>
 
-The `restart` stanza configures a group's behavior on task failure.
+The `restart` stanza configures a group's behavior on task failure. Restarts
+happen on the client that is running the task.
 
 ```hcl
 job "docs" {
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ defaults by job type:
       attempts = 15
       delay    = "15s"
       interval = "168h"
-      mode     = "delay"
+      mode     = "fail"
     }
     ```
 
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ defaults by job type:
       interval = "1m"
       attempts = 2
       delay    = "15s"
-      mode     = "delay"
+      mode     = "fail"
     }
     ```