Sorry, there is no trick or workaround to change the fencing mechanism.
Also, I am still not clear as what your arch is. One would imagine that
the mirroring process would be transparent to the filesystem.

Mehmet Can ÖNAL wrote:
> We are using /etc/sysconfig/o2cb as defaults so then as you expect 
> O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD is 31.
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> The error message was :
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> ## Message from sys...@fa01 at Sun Feb 8 01:08:49 2009 ...
> ## Fa01 kernel : Heartbeat thread (41) printing last 24 blocking operations 
> (cur=6)
> ## Message from sys...@fa01 at Sun Feb 8 01:08:49 2009 ...
> ## fa01 kernel : INdex 7: took 18 ms to do waiting for read completion 
> ## Message from sys...@fa01 at Sun Feb 8 01:08:49 2009 ...
> ## fa01 kernel : INdex 8: took 1959 ms to do msleep
> ## Message from sys...@fa01 at Sun Feb 8 01:08:49 2009 ...
> ## fa01 kernel : INdex 9: took 0 ms to do allocating bios for read
> ## Message from sys...@fa01 at Sun Feb 8 01:08:49 2009 ...
> ## fa01 kernel : INdex 10: took 0 ms to do bio alloc read
> ## Message from sys...@fa01 at Sun Feb 8 01:08:49 2009 ...
> ## fa01 kernel : INdex 11: took 23 ms to do waiting for read completion
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> At our tests we should have overwrite one of the two redo disks storage 
> based. Thus we overwrite it with a clone of old disks by using emc software. 
> As a result our server found the disk as write disable that emc tool sends 
> that signal to other ends of the disk when it is operating a write process. 
> Then highly probable our server reboots after this wirte disable thing 
> however it is the second redo disk and the the loose of access of this disk 
> is not that important, rebooting the server. for this reason i asked this 
> question. Is there any tip or tricks that you would give?  
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Mushran [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:36 PM
> To: Mehmet Can ÖNAL
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] forcing ocfs2 NOT to reboot the server
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> No, this is not configurable. We have to fence else the processes will hang.
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>  From your description it appears it is rebooting because the hb ios are not
> completing within the timeout. What is your current setting?
> O2CB_HEARTBEAT_THRESHOLD in /etc/sysconfig/o2cb.
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> Mehmet Can ÖNAL wrote:
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>> *Hi everyone;*
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>> *I want to ask you a question whether we can make ocfs2 services not 
>> to reboot server when a disk can not be accessed by that server. Can I 
>> set the importance level of a disk for ocfs2 that when one of the 
>> servers can not access low level important disk ocfs2 service only 
>> produces an alert for that not to restart the server. Can it be a 
>> mount option either?*
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>> *PS: Result for doing that is a disaster scenario and our temporary 
>> system should work under these conditions. Two redo disks are written 
>> at the same time by a server but one of them is a mirror. So then the 
>> access mirror could be ignored, that reboot is costly fort he 
>> importance of that disk.*
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>> * *
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>> *Thanx for your time*
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