Nate Carlson wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Lon Hohberger wrote: > >> Yes, as long as more than half the VMs were on the surviving node as >> well... >> >> If exactly half of the nodes votes disappear, a quorum no longer >> exists (except in the 2-node special case). Suppose there were 4 VMs: >> >> 2 x 50 votes = 100 votes >> 4 x 1 vote = 4 votes >> Total = 104 votes >> --------------------------- >> Need for quorum = 53 votes > > > Is it possible to tweak the votes needed for quorum with > 'expected_votes'? I've been playing with it a bit, and it seems to work. Yes, you can force expected_votes to be an unreasonable low value. Personally I set it to 1 on my single-machine Xen test cluster but then I don't care about data corruption ;-) > Really, in my case, as long as one of physical hosts is still up, I'd > still like to have a quorum. > -- patrick -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
