Global disk resource becomes unavailable

Question

Hi all, If I've got a global disk resource (mount point on an isilon file server) that multiple servers use to access a lock file. What is a good way to handle the situation if that global disk becomes unavailable and the servers can't access the global lock file? Thanks, Doug

Answer 1

If this happens intermittently, you might just want to try waiting a short period and retrying. Other than that... log the error and fail. Maybe throw an exception that someone higher up can catch and deal with more gracefully.