[CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote:

> On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> The absolute definiton of safe here is quite important.  In the event of a
>> power loss, and a failure of the UPS, quite possibly also followed by a
>> failure of the RAID battery you'll get data loss, as some writes won't be
>> committed to disk despite the client thinking they are.
>
> Don't forget about kernel panics and the accidentally pulled the plugs...

Sure, but the kernel's always in a position to screw you over.  While you're
being negative, include bad memory on the RAID card, and then your life
becomes really interesting.

jh