Jon Scottorn wrote: > Ok, well maybe my situation is a little different, I have 4 physical > nodes that are need to access the gfs share. I want to be able to just > run the cluster even if there is only 1 node active. I don't really > need to worry about the cluster I just want a filesystem that will work > with multiple mounts to a block device. So, no matter how many nodes I > have in the cluster wether it be 1 or 50, the filesystem will stay > active and continue to serve out the share and when other nodes come > online the just are able to access it without issues. > Is that a possibility? > Not really. The whole point of the quorum is to prevent "split-brains" where two nodes can see the shared storage but not each other - which would corrupt the filesystem because they can't co-ordinate locking. -- patrick -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
