--- Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > While in theory one can have all sorts of fantasy, > one has to hve the > resources to fulfill the *theoraticcal* > requirements. > > > Often the educational institutions just don't have > that. > > Let us be pragmatic and find a solution without > hardware fencing devices > without the cost involved. > > there has to be a mechanism to reboot nodes with say > "reboot -f" _without_ > corrupting the local FS and fence. sometimes you can't avoid a cool reboot :-( bad and unpredictable things happen :-( and on those situations the power button usually is the only option to get the server back > Open source can do better than that.... yeap but how many times do you had had to put your finger over the power button and make a cool reboot? I know this is the worst scenario but it happen :-( and it doesn't matter if you run OSS cu roger __________________________________________ RedHat Certified ( RHCE ) Cisco Certified ( CCNA & CCDA ) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster