[Beowulf] anyone using SALT on your clusters?

[Joe Landman]

On 07/02/2013 04:32 AM, Hearns, John wrote:
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>  > Our NoSQL database uses pub-sub for cluster membership, and we found
>  > that the hosts with screwed up RAID controllers could easily stay in
>  > the cluster even if they were really screwed up. We had to add some extra
>  > watchdogs and tests that the system disk is working.
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> I've seen that before with a RAID controller when one disk fails.
> System pings, OS and TCP-IP stack are up, but the system disk has been
> marked write-only.
> I'm still pretty amazed that the Linux OS soldiers on in this state.
> One to watch out for!

I have a feeling its going to be big some day ...

This is one of the reasons why we like diskless/stateless boot.

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