2007/9/11, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:25:24AM +0200, Jose Jerez wrote:
> > You can always use the ssh stonith agent (external/ssh), it's mainly
> > for testing but I guess its better than no stonith at all.
>
> I'd disagree. An unreliable stonith device gives a false sense of
> security. It's a workaround which may or may not work. You do
> want your stonith device to work in case you need it.


Yes, but I heard about some magical key combinations that restart systems
even in a kernel panic (Something like Alt + Sys Req + some key) and I
thought that maybe some kernel module waiting for a  serial com signal could
do the job. I know that ssh and meatware kernel modules are just for test
scenaries and that, specially with my cluster, a Compaq DL380 with a CR3500,
is really very important to Shoot The Other Node In The Head because the
shared disk between the nodes (I've made some test without STONITH and all I
obtained was filesystem corruption).


> On 9/10/07, Departamento Técnico de El Norte de Castilla
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What kind of STONITH service, if there is one, could I use with
> confidence
> > > without special STONITH hardware installed on the nodes? Thnx in
> advance,
>
> If this is about your data: how much does it cost? How much time
> it would take you to recover it? Is it then worth having a proper
> STONITH setup?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dejan


You're certainly right but the Compaq Proliant DL380 doesn't have STONITH
hardware and the privative cluster software solutions from Compaq (Keepalive
for Linux or the software solutions for Windows) doesn't need it and works
fine so... Why in Linux with Heartbeat is it necessary? Maybe with the
correct file system could it work without STONITH? I'm reading documentation
about OCFS2 and GFS but, could this filesystems help me to solve the
problem? Thnx again in advance,

Israel Sanchez

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