On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Dan Yocum wrote: > What are your recommendations on stonith and LVS director > failovers? Is it useful or not?
people ran without it for years. But then people didn't have good backups back then either. How important is your setup: are you hosting a 1G$ or 1k$ business setup? Is it to run unattended or will people be looking at logs? Do you run smartmon on your disks and pre-emptively remove disks at 2yrs (even if they're working perfectly) or do you let them fail? Do you failout your fans after a year or so? Are you rrunning 5 9's or 1 9? High end commodity hardware isn't too bad nowadays and pre-emptive removal of parts that spin/move helps a lot. It seems like many of the failures are stupidity (pulling plugs, the ISP replaces/reconfigures the router) and no amount of stonith will fix that. Do you trust stonith? Is it a factor of 10 more reliable than the failures you expect? Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
