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@ 2004-08-11 15:55 Thomas Meller
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From: Thomas Meller @ 2004-08-11 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is there any free sector that can be used by a cluster to store it's last lifesign in case
of a partitioned network?

I once had such a situation with a normal filesystem which was nasty enough.

I plan to write a sektor via dd, containing a flag "in use" and a timestamp to be updated
each minute.
Is there any space left on a pv or a raid1 disk?

I do not expect anyone to support this solution. (Solutions which work don't need support)

I could also use some space behind the MBR instead, but that means to be forced to create
partitions for lvm or raid.

Regards,

Thomas


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