Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:29:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:29:18 -0500 Received: from inet-mail1.oracle.com ([148.87.2.201]:13789 "EHLO inet-mail1.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:29:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:36:26 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Pavel Machek Cc: lkml , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Wim Coekaerts Subject: Re: [RFC] hangcheck-timer module Message-ID: <20021126223626.GG13653@nic1-pc.us.oracle.com> References: <20021121201931.GH770@nic1-pc.us.oracle.com> <20021126133547.GA1268@zaurus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021126133547.GA1268@zaurus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 30 On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Would it make it more sense for other machines > to "kill" offending machine (cut power or press reset)? There is no solution that is general and inexpensive. STONITH is as close as it gets, and we don't have support for that. On other platforms where the shared disk is on FC, the device driver supports fencing nodes from the switch. That said, this module isn't exclusively useful to a cluster+shared disk environment. If it were, I couldn't see generic inclusion. This code is useful in many other situations. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #313 "Never underestimate the power of love." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/