On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:58:12PM -0500, Michael Conrad Tadpol Tilstra wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:22:59AM -0700, Steve Landherr wrote: > > In a netsplit, what does fencing achieve when done by a node that > > doesn't have quorum? It still won't have quorum. It should probably > > just clean up as best it can and leave the rest of the cluster alone. > > Think of the world as the nodes see it, not as you see it. You cannot > tell if it is a netsplit or truely nodes dieing. It looks the same. Or in other words, if 2 of 3 nodes go AWOL, do you really want your cluster to stop until someone comes in an manually starts things up again - especially if in the meantime, the 2 bad nodes can write to the disks? The fact that a single node can kill of the other nodes is a good thing! -- AJ Lewis Voice: 612-638-0500 Red Hat Inc. E-Mail: alewis@xxxxxxxxxx 720 Washington Ave. SE, Suite 200 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Current GPG fingerprint = D9F8 EDCE 4242 855F A03D 9B63 F50C 54A8 578C 8715 Grab the key at: http://people.redhat.com/alewis/gpg.html or one of the many keyservers out there... -----Begin Obligatory Humorous Quote---------------------------------------- Behind every good computer -- is a jumble of wires 'n stuff. -----End Obligatory Humorous Quote------------------------------------------
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