Hi,

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:41:38AM -0700, Ethan Bannister wrote:
> 
> This may turn out to be a silly question, but what is the true difference
> between and external STONITH plugin and an internal STONITH plugin.

"internal" (not a good name) plugins are locked in memory on
start in order to have them function even in situations when
memory is tight. So, they are a bit better than external plugins.
But nowadays, with enough memory, there's not much difference
between the two.

> I have
> a SAN set up for fail-over, and everything looks like it is working as it
> should.  However, I would like to use STONITH to prevent split-brain.  I do
> not have a STONITH device so I would need to use something like meatware
> (which does not allow automatic fail-over) or ssh.  But there are two types,
> ssh and external/ssh.  What is the difference?  I will try to do some
> research in the meantime, but if I get an answer before I find out myself,
> that would be greatly appreciated.  Also, if I were to use ssh as a STONITH
> plugin, will my machine automatically migrate resources to the other
> machine?

You should never use ssh for production clusters. It is not
reliable. It is good for testing only. If you have a SAN, you can
try external/sbd.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Thanks for any help you can provide :)
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