I remember when I first used HA-Linux in a project being highly amused when I came across the acronym STONITH and discovering that it meant "Shoot The Other Nod

I remember when I first used HA-Linux in a project being highly amused when I came across the acronym STONITH and discovering that it meant "Shoot The Other Node In The Head" :-) http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/STONITH http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/STONITH All jokes aside, it is indeed a very important concept when dealing with high availability.