Re: [dm-devel] Barriers still not passing on simple dm devices...

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I have seen an installation having generator backup, but with another 
> serious flaw --- if someone plugged a computer causing short-circuit, it 
> turned off the circuit breaker for the whole rack :)

You will be hard-pressed to find datacenters where the above is NOT true
:-)

Although, usually one has TWO independent power feeds per rack, so a short
is likely to bring down just half of it, and any equipment properly set up
with dual independent power feeds should survive...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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