HA-LVM vs CLVM

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> On 02-Feb-10 18:44, Marti, Robert wrote:
>> Helpdesk newbie/careless people have root on the cluster?
>>
>
> That's a bit of an oversimplification, but effectively, yes.
> It's typical of large companies that take ITIL and all that a bit too
> literally: the experts write the procedures the helpdesk newbies have to
> follow (thus allowing the company to have fewer expensive experts and
> more cheap newbies). That they regularly misread/typo/etc the procedures
> is just "room for improvement" as opposed to "a fundamentally bad
> approach".

*sigh*

And I think of h/a failover as an automatic process that occurs if the
heartbeat from the live server to the standby doesn't happen for perhaps
30 sec.

       mark