[Pacemaker] no-quorum-policy

[Romi Verma]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Glory Smith <xx2glory at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Romi Verma <romi3rdfeb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I have one confusion .  pacemaker (configuration explained ) document
>> says that " if the cluster does not have quorum then the cluster cannot
>> start resources or fence other nodes."   i understand that when
>> no-quorum-policy is set to "stop"   then cluster will not be able to start
>> it's existing resources  and when it is set to  "freeze" cluster will not be
>> able to add and start new resources. but i dont know when it will not be
>> able to "fence other nodes" .  i guess it should be when   no-quorum-policy
>> is set to  suicide.
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> As far as i know There is no "suicide"  no-quorum-policy. atleast document
> you mentioned  does not talk about it . Please check it out again and keep
> me posted . Thanks
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Suse 11 has Suicide  as no-quorum-policy  and you are right document does
not have information about it. i dont know the reason why. Andrew can
explain this.

Andrew: please answer to following question also . many many Thanks.

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>> well if it is like this then in 2 nodes cluster,  when ever split brain
>> situation will happen then a node will never  be able to reset other node as
>> without quorum fencing can not happen.  only suicide can happen that means a
>> node will reset itself in absence of quorum. am i right??
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>> Please let me know your view on this.
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