<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.2"> <TITLE>RE: [Linux-cluster] cluster suite and webfarm + GFS ???</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED this doesnt solve your problem but why not just leave all httpd processes running on all the boxes and put some smarts in the loadbalancer such that if a page fetch comes up empty/invalid to mark that server as offline. So if GFS goes wondering off, cluster services doesnt have to figure if http is valid or not. Obviously cluster services needs to figure out that GFS went screwy... </BODY> </HTML>