Hi,

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:04:22AM +0200, Peter Kruse wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Peter Kruse <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Its a very bad word, but the SPoF is very clearly the hardware here.
> > 
> > I understand that there are many reasons to want these integrated
> > power switches to work in a clustered environment, but they don't.
> > We all know they don't, but we come up with complex algorithms so that
> > we can pretend that they do.
> 
> great, I thought they were the recommended stonith devices?  Are they not?
> Obviously not, so please do not mention them in the documentation
> (coming back to the topic ...).  Or if you put it in the documentation
> then also say that it's not recommended because they do not work.

I tried to list all devices which manage host's power and may be
used for fencing. I also tried to describe their deficiencies.
None of the devices are "recommended" really as that depends on
particular circumstances.

Thanks,

Dejan

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