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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Circuitsoft Development <circuitsoft.devel@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: Extended Volume Manager API
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 23:51:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508215136.GQ5856@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64b292120605081417y1684cba4kfb85ce39c14df0f7@mail.gmail.com>

On 2006-05-08T16:17:07, Circuitsoft Development <circuitsoft.devel@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not. They also need to get permission from the network before they
> write to the disk, and they're not going to get permission without
> hearing back from everybody. Besides, since the same network is used
> to connect to the disks as is used to connect the computers to each
> other, how would it be able to access the disks without being able to
> access other computers which also connect to the disks?

You really should read up about split-brain scenarios, quorum, IO
fencing, cluster membership algorithms and the amazing variety of
different types of crashes.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business	 -- Charles Darwin
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-08 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-01  5:26 Circuitsoft Development
2006-05-01  7:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
     [not found]   ` <64b292120605010759h4d9c74d7s717d125018ab95d3@mail.gmail.com>
2006-05-01 20:10     ` Fwd: " Circuitsoft Development
2006-05-02 12:42       ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]         ` <64b292120605062123gdb302d2g201fa59e93bc6a25@mail.gmail.com>
2006-05-08 21:17           ` Fwd: " Circuitsoft Development
2006-05-08 21:51             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2006-05-09  7:24               ` Circuitsoft Development

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