On 28/01/10 10:41, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dietmar Maurer
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 28. Jänner 2010 11:31
>> To: 'Christine Caulfield'
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [Openais] quorum service question
>>
>>> But that can't work. corosync (when using cman) needs cluster.conf to
>>> start up. So if the filesystem depends on corosync you have a catch-
>> 22
>>> situation: the filesystem can't be mounted because corosync isn't
>>> running
>>
>> That is no problem. You can mount the filesystem, but it is read-only
>> as long as the node does not have quorum.
>
> This is possible because it is a distributed filesystem, and each node
> has all data locally (as opposed to shared filesystems).
>


Nice.

It's similar to what VMS does to read node & cluster configuration, it 
mounts the filesystem readonly, gets the config, dismounts it and 
continues booting. I did once suggest something like that but it wasn't 
liked for some reason.

Chrissie
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