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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
