[LinuxFailSafe] Unsuccessful failover

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2002-05-03T11:13:43,
   Christoph Biardzki <cbi@cebis.net> said:

> I'm looking into a problem with failsafe - when I reboot the node (here
> "pc92") with an NFS resource group, the other node tries to take over the
> resources - but if pc92 does not come up after the reboot (for any
> reason) an "exclusivity test" fails. I understand it is necessary to test
> for exclusive resource allocation - but if the other node is down, the
> "survivor" still cant do anything? Why isnt the "failed" (rebooted) node
> simply reset?

The other node is "simply" reset to ensure exclusivity if it drops out from
the cluster; do you have STONITH / reset devices configured correctly?


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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