Re: Configuring synchronous replication

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:16 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 20/09/10 12:17, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > err... what is the difference between a timeout and stonith?
> 
> STONITH ("Shoot The Other Node In The Head") means that the other node 
> is somehow disabled so that it won't unexpectedly come back alive. A 
> timeout means that the slave hasn't been seen for a while, but it might 
> reconnect just after the timeout has expired.

You've edited my reply to change the meaning of what was a rhetorical
question, as well as completely ignoring the main point of my reply.

Please respond to the main point: Following some thought and analysis,
AFAICS there is no sensible use case that requires standby registration.

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