[Linux-HA] Question regarding the stonith resources

[Peter Kruse]

Hello,

peinkofe at fhm.edu wrote:
> Hello Andrew, On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:53:24AM +0100, Andrew
> Beekhof wrote:
> 
>> On 10/31/05, peinkofe at fhm.edu <peinkofe at fhm.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Andrew, On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:37:18AM +0100, Andrew
>>> Beekhof wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 10/30/05, peinkofe at fhm.edu <peinkofe at fhm.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>> 
>> just make sure stonithd knows each node can only shoot itself this
>> way.
> 

I still don't understand the reasoning behind this.  Why do you
request a node to shoot itself at all?  How do you
know that it suceeded?  I mean, a node cannot declare itself
dead.  How can you know that a stonith operation failed?
Do you only deduce it like: "no heartbeat the last n seconds,
so it's probably dead"???  I think this is pretty important,
and may have implications of the setup of a cluster.
Is it just for situations where you can call the normal
reboot procedure?

	Peter