<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Lon H. posted a question that sort of sparked a few questions from me about Quorum Disks…<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>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. <o:p></o:p></li> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=a> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>(Assuming you can run the quorum disk… it would be running on all cluster nodes)<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>Create the quorum disk at one of the nodes<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>Update the cluster.conf (+version) to support it, and then ccs_tool it.<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'>(am I missing a step?)<o:p></o:p></li> </ol> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>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?<o:p></o:p></li> <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>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: <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/MultipleInstanceServices)">http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/MultipleInstanceServices)</a>... That way leaving or joining a node into the cluster starts and stops it’s daemon as needed.<o:p></o:p></li> </ol> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div id=signature> <div id=phone> Chris <o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>