[DRBD-user] Avoiding data inconsistencies after a split-brain

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Apr 19 13:45:52 CEST 2010

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


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:40:02AM -0300, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Hello Lars
> 
> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 21:38 +0200, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > disk {
> > 	fencing resource-and-stonith;
> > 	# this mode implicitly freezes IO and only resumes IO if peer is
> > 	# successfully fenced as reported by the fence peer script.
> > 	# Or if the admin explicitly resumes io.
> > }
> > handler {
> > 	fence-peer "some script that kills the other node";
> > }
> 
> In this case, if both nodes lost the drbd link that connects them but
> are otherwise still up, each node would end up killing the other, right?

Well, that's the nature of a STONITH death match.
One of them wins.
Possibly.

 ;-)

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