> 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. Nothing will give you 100%: eventually the switchover methods introduce more marginal P(fail) than the original setup had. Joy of reliability studies is figuring how to take the first partial of P(Fail) w/ respect to the switchover systems and set it to zero... Turns out the most reliable answer is a swag anyway :-) -- Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 +1 800 762 1582 _______________________________________________ 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