Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 13:57 +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:50:35AM +0100, Sander van Vugt wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > A recommendation please. Currently I have a four node cluster. Works > > fine, but in case two nodes go down, the cluster looses quorum and > > resources don't start automatically anymore. I don't like that :-) but > > Understandable. Perhaps an improvement would be to decrease the > total number of nodes in case a node left the cluster. That way, > a four-node cluster could have quorum in case two nodes left at > different points in time. I'm not sure if that's possible and > what other repercussions it could have on the cluster stability.
I can imagine that something like that is hard to develop. Because after all, it does make sense to work with quorum. As for me, I would be happy to see something like Quorum Votes, like Red Hat is using it. > > > I'm not sure what solution is best. I'm having doubt between the > > following two: > > > > 1) Configure Quorumd. (Is there any good documentation about setting it > > up? Couldn't find it yet...) > > 2) Install an additional node that doesn't really do anything, but just > > for the sake of having quorum. > > Either should work. The quorumd should be preferable, but I > understand that not all people had good experience when deploying it. > Any hints for good documentation about setting up quorumd? Haven't really been able to find anything that was not written in developerish ;-) Thanks, Sander _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
