[linux-lvm] has anyone used LVM in a HA cluster?
Michael Lausch
mla at lausch.at
Mon May 13 10:59:02 UTC 2002
Tim wrote:
> Or don't, and buy a power supply that you can control from serial, and
> do so -- STONITH, it's called -- Shoot The Other Node In The Head. Once
> the power is off, there is no danger of fsck'ing...
>
> It's a rather elegant way to solve that problem, IMHO.
>
> We're going that route.
>
which may backfire, if both nodes think the other one is down (split
brain again) and start the shutdown procedure. okay, this is a very rare
situation, and may happen only under strange load and scheduling
parameters, but it will happen as any other "very rare situation"
happens ;-). especially in HA environments they seem to happen much more
often then in simple single point of failure environments ;-) you won'Ät
loosew your filesystem, but the service is unavailable.
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