FreeBSD & no single point of failure file service

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

Michael,

"great minds think alike", as I just written mail about HA storage here :)

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Michael DeMan wrote:

> --- by 'out of band', for my case simply another ethernet link that by 
> convention is physically separate from the 'primary' storage ethernet.  Good 
> enough for my use case.

Hmm, is Dell's management interface accissible from the mainboard directly?

> --- On (F) below - meant 'if neither head unit can decide whether it should 
> be the master or not' - then they both deny services.  Better that bugs cause 
> outages rather than data loss?

I think it's better administratively define "emergency master" than going 
nowhere without service.  Of course, changing this role shouldn't be allowed 
without other half alive

[snip]

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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