Scott McClanahan wrote: > Hello, we are running CentOS 4.3 and the latest cluster suite packages > from the csgfs yum repository for this release and need to delete a > cluster member. According to the documentation we need to restart all > cluster related services on all remaining nodes in the cluster after the > node has been removed. This is a four node cluster so removing one node > obviously degrades the cluster to three nodes, but we can have the > remaining cluster members recalculate the number of votes to remain > quorate. It still surprises me that we have to bring down the entire > cluster just because we are deleting a node. Any feedback as to why > this might be? > You only need to reboot the whole cluster if you want to remove all trace of the node from /proc/cluster/nodes. If you're not bothered about that them just remove with "cman_tool leave remove" and forget about it. -- Patrick Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 ITE, UK. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster