[Linux-cluster] Quorum partition size requirements?

[Robert Peterson]

Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What are the size requirements for a quorum disk (RHEL4 U4 qdisk)?
>
> Mkqdisk seems to write a fixed amount of status blocks (always for
> 16 nodes) and it doesn't complain when running mkqdisk on just 1 MB,
> so I guess the needs are minimal, but I wnat to be sure.
>
> (Back in RHEL 2.1 the old-style quorum disk needed to be 10+ MB.)
>
> Thanks,
>   
Hi Jos,

The official answer is 10MB. The real number is something like 100KB,
but we'd like to reserve 10MB for possible future expansion and features.
I added this to the faq too:

http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/faq.html#quorumdisksize

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite