[Pacemaker] Few questions

[Romi Verma]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:16:42PM +0530, Glory Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:26:56PM +0530, Glory Smith wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > Anybody worked on stonith external/sbd?? if yes please reply to my
> > > following
> > > > mail.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Glory Smith <xx2glory at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > I am New to this list.  i have few questions related to stonith
> > > external
> > > > > sbd plugin .
> > > > >
> > > > >  i saw that document says that read/write to thd sbd device is
> single
> > > point
> > > > > of failure . if we configure multipath then this should not be SPOF
> > > anymore
> > > > > . Right??
> > >
> > > Right. Provided your local rat community doesn't consider the
> > > cables edible.
> > >
> > > > >  it says that other nodes can write fence request to the errant
> node's
> > > > > mailbox and the errant node gets fenced.
> > > > >  can any one explain when it will happen .
> > >
> > > Whenever the CRM decides a node should be fenced. It has nothing
> > > to do with sbd.
> > >
> > > > > According to my understanding so far, as long as the node is having
> > > access
> > > > > to sbd device it will not get fenced and once it looses access to
> the
> > > sbd
> > > > > device it will reset itself . so when  other nodes will get chance
> to
> > > fence
> > > > > a node by writing fence request?
> > >
> > > Not true. A node may also get a "poison pill" from another node,
> > > just as you mentioned yourself in the previous paragraph.
> >
> >
> > As you said if CRM decides a node should be fenced it will be fenced and
> it
> > has nothing to do with sbd.
>
> Right. The decision itself has nothing to do with sbd. sbd is
> just an executioner.
>
> > so in this case cluster must need an another
> > stonith to provide fencing of errant node.  is my understanding is
> correct.
>
> No.
>
> > can you explain a bit more , how CRM decide that a node should be fence ?
> is
> > it when node become unreachable.??
>
> Yes. Also if a resource can't be stopped on that node.



sorry to interrupt in between. just one question from my side.  if
no-quorum-policy is set to freeze then resource is not supposed to stop .in
that case node will not be fenced right??

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dejan
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dejan
> > >
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Pacemaker mailing list
> > > > Pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
> > > > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Pacemaker mailing list
> > > Pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
> > > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker
> > >
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Pacemaker mailing list
> > Pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
> > http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pacemaker mailing list
> Pacemaker at oss.clusterlabs.org
> http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/pacemaker/attachments/20090209/d926267e/attachment-0002.htm>