[Pacemaker] A very basic question

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Mon Mar 16 19:00:07 EDT 2009


On 2009-03-12T13:13:43, Romi Verma <romi3rdfeb at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > In this situation, unless you have no-quorum-policy=ignore, which I hope
> > you don't, you will not have any node do anything, as both partitions
> > are not larger than half the number of nodes.
> >
> 
> Thanks Dominik,
> yes the no-quorum-policy is set to ignore. or lets talk about unequal
> partition . where partition A has 2 nodes and partition B has 3 nodes. i
> just want to know do we
>  need stonith for a particular node running on all rest four nodes.

Indeed, a 2:2 split would be without quorum.

However, the partition with quorum will "simply" instantiate all STONITH
resources before fencing.

So it doesn't matter where the STONITH resources were allocated before
the split.


Regards,
    Lars

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