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 :)
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