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


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