On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Lars Ellenberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:56:26PM +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
>> On Thursday 25 November 2010 15:51:32 Henrique Fernandes wrote:
>> > If it is in standby it  still part of cluster and take decisions on quorum
>> > and etc ?
>>
>> yes.
>
> And it is also still "electable", that is it likely will become DC.

Likely?

>
> So this is not an answer to the OP's question,
> or I misunderstood "electable" in that question.
>
> "in theory" you should be able to add a node on the membership layer
> only (corosync), but not start pacemaker.
>
> That "should" give you an additional quorum vote,
> but obviously won't be able to become DC.
>
> You could also say "pretty please" to beekhof, not taking part in the DC
> election should be a very simple if () statement in the code and one
> additional node setting in the cib, something like standby, only "stronger".

eventually we'll have non-voting peers, but for now, (as you said)
just don't run pacemaker.

>
> Use case would be to add a weak, small, cheap, maybe even virtual,
> node to an otherwise two-node cluster to serve as a quorum tiebreaker.
>
> It may have not enough power to run resources, and possibly not even
> enough to run as DC.  Or it may not be reliable enough all by itself to
> act as DC, rebooting it should not affect an otherwise healthy cluster
> at all etc.

Node age is one of the metrics used to elect a DC, if it cant stay up
long it's unlikely to be elected.

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