Hi,

Zhen Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> The DC node should try to connect to the quorumd sever periodically.
> If not, it should be a bug. 

Thanks for clarifying, I'll retest later today when I'm back at home, when I 
can reproduce, I'll open a bugzilla entry.

kind regards
Sebastian

> 
>
> Alan Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> 11/14/2007 03:13 AM
> 
> To
> Sebastian Reitenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc
> [email protected], Zhen Huang/China/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject
> Re: [Linux-HA] question regarding quorumd
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Andrew Beekhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> >> On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Andrew Beekhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> On Nov 9, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I did some tests with a two node cluster and a third one running a
> >>>>> quorumd.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I started the quorumd, and then the two cluster nodes.
> >>>>> The one that became DC, started to communicate with the remote
> >>>>> quorumd.
> >>>> The CRM (and thus the "DC") doesn't know anything about quorumd
> >>>> I believe this is purely the domain of the CCM and I've no idea how
> >>>> that works :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> We just consume membership data from it...
> >>>>
> >>>> So anyway, my point is that the fact that a node is the DC is
> >>>> irrelevant when it comes to quorumd.
> >>> but somehow the cluster knows, as only the DC is communicating with 
> >>> the
> >>> external quorumd.
> >> I think that its just a co-incidence that it happens to be the DC... 
> >> at least I hope it is.
> > I thought I read somewhere, that the DC is the one in charge of 
> > communicating with the remote quorumd, but I may be wrong here.
> > 
> >>> I just do not understand, why the cluster does not retry
> >>> to re-contact the quorumd after it lost connection to it. This was 
> >>> what I
> >>> assumed, after a disconnect to the remote quorumd, the cluster nodes 
> >>> should
> >>> try to contact it, and when the contact is there again, use it again.
> >> I agree - but I've never seen that code.  You'll have to contact alan 
> >> or file a bug for him.
> > Alan, in case you think this is a bug, I'll go create a bug report for 
> it.
> > Please let me know.
> > 
> >>>>> I killed the DC, saw the other becoming DC, and start communicating
> >>>>> to the remote quorumd, all fine, cluster still with quorum.
> >>>>> Then I killed the quorumd itself, the DC recognized, and started to
> >>>>> stop
> >>>>> all resource, because of the quorum_policy, as it lost quorum.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Then I restarted the quorumd again, but the DC, still without 
> >>>>> quorum,
> >>>>> did not tried to communicate to the quorumd again.
> >>>>> I'd expect the still living DC to try to contact the quorumd, in
> >>>>> case it
> >>>>> comes back.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If there is a good reason, why the DC is not trying to reconnect to
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> remote quorumd I'd really like to get enlightened from someone who
> >>>>> knows.
> 
> It should be trying to reconnect.  It _does_ communicate w/quorumd from
> a single machine/cluster.  I think that it's coincidence that it's the
> DC.  Huang Zhen wrote the code.  I've CCed him.  I'm at the LISA
> conference this week - if HZ doesn't get back to you by next Monday,
> I'll look into it.
> 

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