On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:02 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
wrote:
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> Anyway, my personal experience with a shared disk setup is a bad one.
>
> Imagine two nodes, redundantly attached to disks mirrored across data
> centers with fibrechannel. No single point of failure, right?
> Well, one day one of the fibrechannel cables had intermittent failures,
> which led to a corrupted file system.
> So we ended up with a currupted file system, nicely mirrored across
> data centers. We had to restore the 3TB database from backup.
>
1. Sounds like both nodes were turned on.
2. Couldn't this happen in /any/ SAN with redundant cabling?