Carson Gaspar wrote: > --On Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:45 PM -0500 Corey Minyard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I guess the big question in my mind is why you would ever want to stop >> the watchdog daemon for long enough to allow the watchdog to go off. It >> seems you are opening a window for an unprotected failure. But your >> > > A clean reboot can take a while, perhaps longer than the watchdog timeout. > If you've already failed over your services to another server, you don't > want your watchdog panicing your server in the middle of unmounts. > In that case, you either want to leave the watchdog daemon running until the very end, or you want to extend the watchdog timeout to a value large enough to shut your machine down. If your system hangs during shutdown, you still want the watchdog to go off, I think.
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