[Linux-cluster] self_fence in <fs> resource tag?

[Lon Hohberger]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:52 +0100, André Fernandes wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I was configuring a HA cluster with a shared ext3 filesystem and came
> across this option in the <fs> resource tag.
> What does the self_fence option do? I could not find it detailed
> anywhere.
> 
> Here's the sample from my cluster.conf:
> ...
> <resources>
>             ...
>             <fs device="/dev/scalixdata/scalixmail" force_fsck="1"
> force_unmount="1" fsid="8848" fstype="ext3"
> mountpoint="/var/opt/scalix" name="scalix_mail_data" options=""
> self_fence="1"/>

Reboots the node if unmount fails.

-- Lon