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

[Lon Hohberger]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 10:52 -0600, Jon Scottorn wrote:
> Ok, so let me reiterate:
> 
>    If I don't even care about quorum and the cluster.  I just want a
> filesystem that will server out a block device, which is what gfs does. 
> I'm not worried about "split brain" issues.  If we need to have quorum,
> I want the number of nodes for quorum to be set at 1, which will be the
> main server containing the data.  Any other node that connectes can just
> access the data or go offline without causeing any quorum issues.
> Is this functionality going to be possible, I want to use GFS for this
> because if not, our other option is enbd but then we are limiting
> ourselves very much.  We would have to create seperate partitions for
> each node to mount, etc... a major PAIN to go that way but, it is not as
> painful of having quorum fail and cause all of our nodes to go down.

Set a cronjob to reset expected votes every 10 minutes...

Good luck.

-- Lon