<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Glory Smith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <div> </div> <div>Many Thanks Andrew ,</div><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The same way heartbeat did (if you're familiar with that).<br>Check out the section on STONITH in the configuration explained document (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Documentation" target="_blank">http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Documentation</a>)</blockquote> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Unfortunetly this document's stonith chapter is blank. Anways i have gone through some other available materials and disussions.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>check again, in the version i updated earlier this morning its no longer blank</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div> </div> <div>According to me through STONITH , we fence (poweroff/reboot) the errant node. this is a way to provide node fencing and work fine. my concern is , does openais-pacemaker stack has something for<strong> resource fencing</strong> . </div> <div><strong></strong> </div> <div><strong>how we will ensure that IO is blocked from errant node to shared disk.</strong> </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>we kill the node with STONITH.</div><div>very hard for a machine to write to shared media when its powered off. </div><div><br></div><div>we can kill nodes when:</div>- nodes become unresponsive<div>- nodes are not part of the cluster that has quorum</div><div>- resources fail to stop when instructed</div><div>- resources fail in any way (optional) </div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>i am sure you ppl must have something . </div><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q">waiting for your reply,<br>Thanks<br></span>_______________________________________________<br> Pacemaker mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org" target="_blank">Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org</a><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker" target="_blank">http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker</a><br> </blockquote></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Pacemaker mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org" target="_blank">Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org</a><br> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker" target="_blank">http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker</a><br></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>Pacemaker mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org">Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org</a><br>http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>