Hi,

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Robert Heinzmann (ml) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> besides STONITH another (as I would say additional) approach in shared scsi 
> clusters is to use scsi reservations (2 or 3) to reserve a disk for a host 
> and avoid data integrity problems.
>
> A situation were SCSI reservations are useful is the automatic mounting of 
> a cluster protected fs. If the administrator left the mount entry in 
> /etc/fstab for a cluster protected FS and additionally the application 
> accessing the FS is still enabled in sysv init, the fs is mounted and the 
> app is startet during system boot. This is true also if STONITH was 
> susccessful (not reset not power down). To avoid this SCSI reservations can 
> be used (of course a cluster _SHOULD_ be configured correctly and tested 
> extensivly, however things happen - think of it as an airbag).
>
> Is there a SCSI2 or SCSI PR reservation OCF agent out there ? Has anyone 
> configured something like this in HB2 ?

Not currently. There was some discussion and an implementation by
our colleagues of NTT (take a look in the list archives), but the
thread petered out inconclusively. Which doesn't mean that the
code isn't usable. Don't know if anybody's using it.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Regards,
> Robert
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