AW: [LinuxFailSafe] Failsafe, shared SCSI, and linux's software RAID

[Martin Bene]

Hi Dan,

> Does Failsafe and Linux's software RAID (specifically mirroring)=20
> work reliably together on shared SCSI disks?

I don't think oyu'll be happy with the result: software raid only marks =
a
raid array as "clean" during normal shutdown of the system (or unload of =
raid
drivers). On startup, the whole raid device will be resynchronized if it
wasnt shutdown cleandly before;=20

Since a failure of the primary node won't cleanly shutdown the raid =
device,
you'll get  a raid resync on every failover.

For shared storage, I'd really recomend an external raid enclosure.

Bye, Martin