On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Andreas Mock <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: "Peter Kruse" <[email protected]> >> Gesendet: 04.05.09 15:19:06 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: [Linux-HA] [Pacemaker] new doc about stonith/fencing > > Hi Peter, > >> If the PDUs becomes unavailable and shortly after the host is unavailable as >> well, then assume the host is down and fenced successfully. > > 'assume' is the bad word here. Stonith is there so that the cluster does NOT > have > to assume anything, but be SURE that there is a predictible state of the > cluster.
I'd have to agree here. However, I can imagine a (non-default) option for the agent called cause-probable-data-corruption that let the agent behave in the way Peter describes. Just so that there is no way the user can claim they didn't understand the implications :) _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
