On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:27:14PM -0800, Scott Becker wrote: > I have three nodes. If one fails the other two are expected to maintain > quorum and continue. I would really like a second failure to keep going > on it's own (last man standing). For this to work I would need to set > expected votes to 1 and make sure the correct node wins the ensuing > fencing race. > > Case two. I remove one node from the cluster to maintain it. Now I have > a two node cluster. Same issues as above. Luci wants to set two_node = 1 > in this case instead of just dealing with expected votes = 1. I haven't > test this because I'm testing all this with node 2 and node 3 while the > future node 1 is currently our production server. > > The ping gateway test/IP tie-breaker was my way of reliably running down > to last man standing. > By the way, I am a C programmer. (From windows land though we use RH on > all of our servers.) I've spent a month trying to get this to work. It's > open source and given enough time I can make it go. I don't have any > more time. It's supposed to be production quality. I'm curious if anyone else out there has done this successfully? I doubt anyone at RH has ever even tried it. It sounds to me like you're outside the scope of what a person can or should do with this software. At least reasonably. It may be technically possible to make it do what you want, I don't know, but I doubt it would be easy or pretty as you've shown. Dave -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster