On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:21 +0000, "Sævaldur Arnar Gunnarsson [Hugsmiðjan]" wrote: > Could someone explain to me the purpose of the fencing hardware in a > cluster with a shared storage resource. > > When one of the cluster member goes down all access to the shared volume > (GFS) is closed off. > No other cluster member can read or write to the volume until the failed > node comes back up. That sounds like manual fencing. > Are fencing devices used to close off the access the dead node has on > the filesystem so the other nodes can access (read/write) the fileystem > as usual ? Yes. -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
