[Linux-cluster] really reliable?

Gunther Schlegel schlegel at riege.com
Wed Apr 15 08:32:19 UTC 2009


The cluster suite has a well known problem establishing a fence domain , 
established in 5.3. Updated packages have been released a couple of days 
ago.

Ryan Golhar schrieb:
> No no no, I haven't modified any of the init files...these are out of 
> the box...
> 
> Steven Dake wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 22:52 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> David Teigland wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Even when I try to reboot the nodes, I can't because the whole 
>>>>> system hangs on various processes that don't ever shut down.  I 
>>>>> have to physically reboot these boxes.
>>>> If something has gone wrong, it's often impossible to shutdown 
>>>> without a hard
>>>> reboot.  Even when things are working, rebooting can be a delicate task
>>>> because the system may easily be configured to stop things in the 
>>>> wrong order,
>>>> and one thing out of place can cause a wreck.
>>> If things don't come down in the correct order using the standard 
>>> init scripts, you should file a bug report about this. I've never 
>>> seen it happen on any of my clusters.
>>>
>>
>> I believe he means the administrator makes a configuration change to the
>> init scripts which result in a shutdown not working.  RHCS amplifies
>> this problem somewhat so more care must be taken in these situations.
>>
>> regards
>> -steve
>>
>>> Gordan
>>>
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