Tim wrote: > Or don't, and buy a power supply that you can control from serial, and > do so -- STONITH, it's called -- Shoot The Other Node In The Head. Once > the power is off, there is no danger of fsck'ing... > > It's a rather elegant way to solve that problem, IMHO. > > We're going that route. > which may backfire, if both nodes think the other one is down (split brain again) and start the shutdown procedure. okay, this is a very rare situation, and may happen only under strange load and scheduling parameters, but it will happen as any other "very rare situation" happens ;-). especially in HA environments they seem to happen much more often then in simple single point of failure environments ;-) you won'Ät loosew your filesystem, but the service is unavailable. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
