On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:23:28PM -0000, Rodrigo Pereira wrote:
>  
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:42:59PM -0000, Rodrigo Borges 
> > Pereira wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I just want to confirm this. From what i've learned so far, 
> > STONITH is 
> > > relevant only to avoid data corruption when using shared 
> > storage. So, 
> > > is STONITH relevant when i'm using a non-shared setup with 
> > Heartbeat 
> > > and XEN VM on top of DRBD? Xen is using file images created 
> > on top of 
> > > a ext3 FS on top of DRBD, and there should not be any 
> > concurrent access.
> > 
> > Here you say yourself that you need STONITH :)
> 
> I guess i shouldn't have used the "should" word :) I think the key fact here
> is that i am running the virtual machine on just one node and on top of
> DRBD, in any given moment. A concurrency scenario would happen if i'd have
> two virtual machines using the same virtual disk file, running each on it's
> node, and over DRBD set to primary/primary. Is this something that could
> really happen in case of mis-configuration of the cluster and/or lack of
> STONITH? 

Yes, in case there's a split brain (lack of communication between
the two nodes). But I'm not sure I understand your configuration:
your cluster consists of two Xen resources, right?

Thanks,

Dejan

> 
> tks, 
> rodrigo
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dejan
> > 
> 
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