But if you do it that way, and you really have a netsplit, won't you get into a "quickdraw" situation where each of the newly formed clusters are trying to fence out the others? In the worst case, all the nodes get reset and nobody is happy. But maybe the worst case happens so infrequently that it is better than always losing the cluster whenever quorum is lost. But then again, from any one node's perspective, how often do multiple nodes drop out of a cluster at the same time and the problem is not either a netsplit or a glitch on the local node? Just pondering... -steve -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Conrad Tadpol Tilstra Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:45 AM To: Discussion of clustering software components including GFS Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS 6.0 node without quorum tries to fence In a lights out setup. (no user required to keep things running) 2 of three nodes go AWOL. One node now needs to reset (NPS fencing) the other two, without quorum, to keep things running.
