[Linux-HA] linux-ha with mysql/DRBD and disk (or other non-tcp) failures

[Mark Hunting]

Igor Neves wrote:
> Anthony J. Biacco wrote:
>   
>> What i'm wondering is if it (linux-ha) (or something else) will detect other failure conditions, such as a disk failure in the
>> master..medium sense errors, etc.. and also act accordingly.
>>     
> DRBD will do that for you.
Is that true? As far as I know Heartbeat will only fail over if the
heartbeat signal stops. But you could write a script that calls
'/etc/init.d/heartbeat stop' when something bad happens (e.g. you can't
connect to mysql anymore, or a query gives an error instead of the
desired result).

Mark