[Pacemaker] OCFS2 causing stonith

[Prakash Velayutham]

On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Florian Haas wrote:

> On 2011-10-06 22:32, Prakash Velayutham wrote:
>> My OCFS2 file system is being used for MySQL database (failover setup)
> 
> What for? A MySQL database clearly does not require OCFS2 for failover
> capability. With Pacemaker, MySQL HA needs can be easily met using
> either shared storage, or single-Primary DRBD (both with a regular,
> non-cluster file system), or, if database uptime is more important than
> transaction integrity in the face of fail-over, MySQL replication. None
> of which require OCFS2 by any means.
> 
> My suggestion is, do reconsider that setup before you get deeper into
> troubleshooting your OCFS2.
> 
> Cheers,
> Florian

Any reason why you prefer one over the other? BTW, I can tolerate a downtime of about 5 minutes if that tilts the scale one way or another...

Thanks,
Prakash