[Linux-cluster] watchdog with GFS?

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Maciej Bogucki wrote:
> Alexandre Racine napisał(a):
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> I would need to have some good and bad points to use watchdog (the software Linux app) has a fencing device for GFS.
>>
>> Does some of you have some experience with it? Let's just say that I want to use DRAC's witch are very nice, but some people needs to be over-convince sometimes.
>>
>> Shoot everything your got :)

Using watchdogs / manual fencing is such a bad idea it even gets its own
FAQ entry:

http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/faq.html#fence_manual

As a backup method or for testing/development/debugging it has some
uses, but as your primary fencing method in a production environment it
is just not suitable.

Regards,
Bryn.
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