Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 May 2006 23:51:36 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: Fwd: Extended Volume Manager API |
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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"
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