[Linux-cluster] A few GFS newbie questions: journals, etc

[Nate Carlson]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> Yes, you can force expected_votes to be an unreasonable low value. 
> Personally I set it to 1 on my single-machine Xen test cluster but then 
> I don't care about data corruption ;-)

One thing I've noticed with this - it seems that as machines join the 
cluster, expected_votes is automatically raised. (IE, I can start a single 
node and have it gain quorum, but if I join another node and then leave 
the cluster, the first one loses quorum - if I manually drop the expected 
vots with cman_tool, then it gains quorum again.) Is that expected 
behavior? I'd expect manually specifying expected_votes to lock it down.

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