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Geek humor
Jul. 2nd, 2014 12:00 amSTONITH (Shoot the Other Node in the Head) is a way to kill a bad node in a cluster.
According to Linux High Availability Wiki:
STONITH started out as a misspelling of another acronym (STOMITH), where the M stood for machine. At one point, Alan Robertson realized he had been misspelling it, but he decided he preferred his misspelled version, because it appealed to his sense of whimsy. It seems he liked the sort of Biblical feel to the the sound of STONITH, which to his ear is similar to the pseudo-King-Jamesean verb "stoneth" - as in "I stoneth thou". This appeal was enhanced by the parallels between a cluster fatally casting out one of its members for disobeying cluster rules, to the Biblical use of stoning as a fatal method of casting a human out of the community for their transgressions against God.
According to Linux High Availability Wiki:
STONITH started out as a misspelling of another acronym (STOMITH), where the M stood for machine. At one point, Alan Robertson realized he had been misspelling it, but he decided he preferred his misspelled version, because it appealed to his sense of whimsy. It seems he liked the sort of Biblical feel to the the sound of STONITH, which to his ear is similar to the pseudo-King-Jamesean verb "stoneth" - as in "I stoneth thou". This appeal was enhanced by the parallels between a cluster fatally casting out one of its members for disobeying cluster rules, to the Biblical use of stoning as a fatal method of casting a human out of the community for their transgressions against God.
