[DRBD-user] To stonith or not to stonith?

Dave Dykstra dwdha at drdykstra.us
Mon Aug 29 20:39:20 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Drbd will prevent data corruption on its own, but stonith with drbd can
give you increased uptime because there are cases when a standby drbd or
heartbeat will refuse to take over until the formerly active one has been
proven to be shut down.

- Dave

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:27:35AM +0930, David wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is a little off-topic but is drbd related -
> Just wondering: since the (main?) purpose of STONITH is to prevent
> simultaneous access of a shared disk, and drbd can't be mounted
> primary/primary (certainly that should not happen 'accidentally' by
> heartbeat anyway, save perhaps a split-brain), what might be the use of
> stonith on a drbd-based setup with heartbeat?
> 
> Does anyone have a need for using stonith with their drbd setup that they
> might share with the group?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David.
> 
> 
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