Just because a node is unresponsive doesn’t mean it has stopped accessing your data. The only way to be
100% sure that your data is safe, is to use fencing to ensure that the node is truly offline before allowing the
data to be accessed from another node.
Fencing also has a role to play in the event that a clustered service cannot be stopped. In this case, the
cluster uses fencing to force the whole node offline, thereby making it safe to start the service elsewhere.
Fencing is also known as STONITH, an acronym for “Shoot The Other Node In The Head”, since the most
popular form of fencing is cutting a host’s power.
Key Benefits:
• Active countermeasure taken by a functioning host to isolate a misbehaving (usually dead) host from
shared data.
•
MOST CRITICAL part of a cluster utilizing SAN or other shared storage technology (
Ubuntu HA
Clusters can only be supported if the fencing mechanism is configured).
• Required by OCFS2, GFS2, cLVMd (before Ubuntu 20.04), lvmlockd (from 20.04 and beyond).
Linux High Availability Projects
There are many upstream high availability related projects that are included in Ubuntu Linux. This section
will describe the most important ones.
The following packages are present in latest Ubuntu LTS release:
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