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

[Nate Carlson]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> Yes, this is expected behaviour. When you add a node to the cluster, 
> expected_votes is adjusted to be the higher value of all cluster nodes. 
> If you want to lock down expected_votes then you need to override it in 
> cluster.conf otherwise it will be calculated by cman_tool to be the sum 
> of the votes of all the nodes in that file.

I am overriding it in cluster.conf - I've got it hardcoded to 10 (for 
testing, in the <cman> section), and all of the physical nodes have 50 
votes.

However, when the second physical node goes online, expected_votes gets 
raised, so when that node leaves, the first node doesn't have enough votes 
to keep a quorum.

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