Thanks for the clarification. Does the state change from quorate -> inquorate get logged anywhere? I have log level set to 7 and all that is in messages is "downgrading". Also my status_file "Current disk state" always seems to be "None". Thanks Again. - Dan -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Lon Hohberger <lhh@xxxxxxxxxx> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 15:40 -0400, Andrea Westervelt wrote: > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Lon, > > > > fenced is running and based on the manpage it seems like dropping > > below a score of ½ should cause a reboot? > > It currently expects the quorate partition (remember, this node is no > longer quorate) to fence the node rather than taking action itself. > > > I guess I am a little confused on what the heuristics/scoring are > > meant to do. Can you explain the role of the master partition and > > what the expected outcome of an insufficient score should be? > > The master node is a node with sufficient score to declare itself online > according to the heuristics that you supply in the qdisk configuration. > Assuming it maintains its score, it arbitrates what other nodes join the > "master" partition. If a node becomes part of the master partition, the > node advertises quorum device votes to CMAN. > > Insufficient scores should cause a node to remove itself from the master > partition and tell CMAN that the quorum device is offline. This should > cause CMAN on a node in the qdisk master partition to fence the node > (assuming that this causes the node to transition from > quorate->inquorate). > > I'm guessing what is happening here in your case is that CMAN is still > seeing the node - even though it's inquorate - and it's not fencing it > -- is that right? A transition from quorate->inquorate should cause the > node to get fenced. > > That sounds like a bug (pretty easy to fix, too). > > -- Lon > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
