On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 06:21:29PM -0700, Hai Tao wrote: > > what will happen if the heartbeat cable (a serial cable in my case) is broken? > > My guess is both nodes will assume its peer is down, and will then > claim the virtual IP. Will this cause a IP conflict?
If _all_ commuication paths have failed, this would be a "cluster wide split brain", and is typically dealt with by a combination of quorum and STONITH. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
