Hi,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:10:22AM +0100, Alain.Moulle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> > And if we have a more than two-nodes cluster, it seems similar for me ...
> >   
> > > >>     
> >   
> > > >
> > > > No, because the partition without quorum can't fence nodes. That
> > > > makes things simpler and more predictable.
> > > >   
> >   
> > > ... what if no-quorum-policy=ignore ?
> >   
> >
> > Why would you want to set it to ignore if you have more than
> > two nodes?
> >
> >   
> I have to set  no-quorum-policy=ignore  because on my four nodes HA 
> clusters,
> I want failover happen with not at least one node in failure but even 
> with two
> nodes in failure, because all the resources can continue to work with 
> decreased
> performances on two nodes.

I see your point, but having quorum is of great advantage to
clusters ;-)  How probable is that two nodes simultaneously fail?
Can you add another node in the cluster which would serve as a
tie-breaker?

> > OK fine, but I have some big customer's sites where I have hundreds of 
> > > HA pairs,
> > > and on these sites, despite probability is near 0 , it has happened 
> > > several times, not many
> > > but several.
> >   
> >
> > With which plugin? Did you file a bugzilla? Or was it with RHCS?
> >
> >   
> it was with RHCS, and I hope not to have this problem anymore with 
> Pacemaker/openais.

The issue is in principle the same. I doubt that RHCS and
pacemaker deal differently with it.

Thanks,

Dejan

> Alain Moullé
> 
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