  | |  | RedHat Cluster question - fs check on service (re)start? | RedHat Cluster question - fs check on service (re)start? 2005-09-13 - By Ed Wilts
Back On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:48:01PM +0200, danci@(protected) wrote: > I'm implementing a RH Cluster manager and I have this question: > > If one server fails (for whatever reason), the service is transferred to > the other server. The cluster manager automatically mounts the required > device, but it doesn't run the filesystem check - so it seems there is a > high posibillity of FS corruption. > > Does the cluster software handle that in some other way?
It is not the job of the cluster software to prevent file system corruption due to a system crash - that's the job of the file system. Journalling file systems these days help prevent file system corruption - your claim of "a high possibility of FS corruption" is simply not true with ext3.
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