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

[Nate Carlson]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> Not really. The whole point of the quorum is to prevent "split-brains" 
> where two nodes can see the shared storage but not each other - which 
> would corrupt the filesystem because they can't co-ordinate locking.

It'd still be nice to have the option to lock the quorum expected number 
down for those of us who understand the risks.. c'mon, I want the 'shoot 
myself in the foot.' option! :)

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