Hi list,

 

Trying to think out a decent solution here, I run across the following. I
want to build a three node cluster where some services are running. Now the
following situation arises: I bring down one node for maintenance. Shortly
after that a second node fails. This causes the cluster to loose quorum. The
result? Just to be sure, the default "no_quorum_policy stop"  causes the
cluster to stop all resources completely! Second attempt: I switch the
no_quorum policy to "ignore". The resource keeps on running, so I am happy.
However, in that situation, if the nodes that fails just has a network
failure and can therefore no longer see the rest of the cluster, a perfect
split brain arises on which the failing node as well as the remaining node
both start offering the services. Rather uncool if these involve shared file
systems that are not cluster safe :-). Third scenario: I set no_quorum
policy to " freeze". At least, the services continue running on the
remaining node, but services that were somewhere else, don't fail over
automatically, so: still no high availability.

 

So my question: I want my services to continue running, even if a number of
nodes remain that is less than the quorum. Is there any way this can be
organized? 

 

(Version used: 2.08 on SLES 10 sp1)

 

Thanks,

Sander

 

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