Hello,

thanks for your replies,

Andreas Mock wrote:
>> 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.

You are saying that it is okay that a single failure can bring the cluster
in a unsolvable situation?  I thought "SPoF" would be the bad word.
Because that's what it is.

> IMHO you answered your question for yourself.   ;-) 

I don't think so, the powerfail algorithm is of course a bit more complicated.

Regards,

   Peter



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