If you change the quorum votes Node 1: 2 Node 2: 1 Node 3: 1 Then Node 1 will stay up and have quorum since it has 1/2 of the votes. The better way to do it is to have 4 nodes. Robert Gil Linux Systems Administrator American Home Mortgage Phone: 631-622-8410 Cell: 631-827-5775 Fax: 516-495-5861 -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Watson Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:13 AM To: Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: quorate error On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:08:19AM -0500, David Teigland wrote: >> > During a disaster recovery test three nodes of a three node cluster >> > were caused to fail. A single node was rebooted to attempt a >> > recovery. The node failed to bring back the service and reports >> > these >> > errors: > >Sorry, I failed to read that properly. In a three node cluster you >need two nodes for quorum, so you need to bring two back before >anything will happen. So this plan will fail :(. We would need to have four nodes: two at the main data centre and two at the DR centre? That is unexpected. There is no way around this? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator | Uptime 26 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
