[Linux-cluster] A few GFS newbie questions: journals, etc
Nate Carlson
natecars at natecarlson.com
Fri Jun 24 22:02:05 UTC 2005
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> Yes, as long as more than half the VMs were on the surviving node as
> well...
>
> If exactly half of the nodes votes disappear, a quorum no longer exists
> (except in the 2-node special case). Suppose there were 4 VMs:
>
> 2 x 50 votes = 100 votes
> 4 x 1 vote = 4 votes
> Total = 104 votes
> ---------------------------
> Need for quorum = 53 votes
Is it possible to tweak the votes needed for quorum with 'expected_votes'?
I've been playing with it a bit, and it seems to work.
Really, in my case, as long as one of physical hosts is still up, I'd
still like to have a quorum.
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