[Pacemaker] DRBD 2 node cluster and STONITH configuration help?required.

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:59:26PM +0000, Mario Giammarco wrote:
> Andrew Beekhof <andrew at ...> writes:
> > Have you seen:
> >    http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/crm_fencing.html
> > I have been led to believe that STONITH
> > > will help prevent split brain situations, but the LINBIT instructions do not
> > > provide any guidance on how to conifgure STONITH in the pacemaker cluster.
> 
> Probably the 10 million dollar question is: does drbd really need stonith?

The $3.50 question is: is your data important?  If it is, you need STONITH. 
If it isn't, then you don't need DRBD either.

- Matt

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