Lon H. posted a question that sort of sparked a few questions
from me about Quorum Disks…
- Even if there is absolutely no
configuration for a quorum disk (yet), nor is one even created (through
mkqdisk)… can the Quorum Disk Daemon still run (at startup)? You
might ask why I would even want to do this. Simply because our company
preloads a working cluster through a kickstart and a series of scripts…
it would just be one less command to have to call on every single node (at
the start) after creating the partition and updating the cluster.conf
tool. Just having the daemon run at the start would mean you could
configure the Quorum Disk from just one node.
- (Assuming you can run the
quorum disk… it would be running on all cluster nodes)
- Create the quorum disk at one
of the nodes
- Update the cluster.conf
(+version) to support it, and then ccs_tool it.
- (am I missing a step?)
- When you type mkqdisk –L
after creating a Quorum disk. Does the node that created the quorum disk
have any impact on the cluster at all? I guess I get confused with
creating a 10MB iscsi mount on all cluster nodes, and only having to run
the mkqdisk once on one of the nodes… Does this mean if that node
fails, the quorum disk is gone? Or do all nodes access the block device
that has been made available to them too (ie, all nodes see /dev/sdc, but
mkqdisk –L says it was created on node04)… Maybe my question
should be: how is knowing who created the Qdisk useful to me?
- Since there is all this talk
about the Quorum Disk Daemon being the last thing to start (after fencing)….
Would it be feasible to just make a failoverdomain per node and only
consisting of 1 node to exclusively start the Quorum Disk Daemon as a
cluster service (per node) (this site explains it better: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/MultipleInstanceServices)...
That way leaving or joining a node into the cluster starts and stops it’s
daemon as needed.
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