[Linux-cluster] qdiskd question

Neependra Khare nkhare.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 11:05:25 UTC 2008


Mag Gam wrote:
> I have a 8 node cluster with shared Hitachi SAN disk. On each disk I
> created a 20M partition for qdisk , but only on 1 disk I created a
> qdisk.
> mkqdisk -c /dev/sda -l css
>
> Is it a good idea to create it on all disks? (/dev/sdb, sdc, sdd,
> etc..) or would I be find with only one disk?
>   
Have you created 8 separate partition for each node.
OR
One shared partition which is accessible to all the nodes.

Refer following  for configuring quorum disks.
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/FAQ/CMAN#quorum
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/12/19/enhancing-cluster-quorum-with-qdisk/

> Also, I suppose I need to make changes to cluster.conf after I do this, correct?
>   
Yes.

Neependra.




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