Hi,

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:43:20PM +0100, Sander van Vugt wrote:
> 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. 

Assigning different weights to nodes? Can't recall if that was
planned, but you could file an enhancement bugzilla.

> > 
> > > 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 ;-)

This one looks rather practical to me:

http://www.linux-ha.org/QuorumServerGuide

Thanks,

Dejan

> Thanks,
> Sander
> 
> 
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