Re: Software Raid 5

Ivan Krstic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.user
Organization Harvard University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris de Vidal wrote:
> I looked at that PDF, but does OpenSSI's CFS do hardware redundancy?

Yes.

> That is, if the root node fails does the whole cluster die? 

Not if you have a failover initnode set up. This depends on having
shared storage between the initnodes, either in hardware (NAS) or in
software (DRBD).

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