[Ocfs2-users] any way to ignore quorum in a two node cluster with one node down?

[Sunil Mushran]

It should behavw as you expect it to. That's the idea.
What are the errors when mkdir fails?
As in, userspace and dmesg.

Andrew D. Ball wrote:
> I would really like to see the following behavior:
>
> (1) I start with a two-node cluster, both nodes online, with an ocfs2
> filesystem mounted on both nodes.
> (2) I power off one of the nodes without unmounting the filesystem.
> (3) The node that is still powered on continues to use the filesystem
> mounted read-write with no problems.
>
> I believe I'm seeing that the node that is still online fails to write
> data to the filesystem.  Specifically, mkdir(2) is failing.
>
> This is related to having a quorum right?  Can the quorum requirements
> be disabled?  I have a file-backed database on the filesystem and my
> entire software stack will be broken if any surviving nodes cannot
> update the database.  Is there any reason why ignoring the quorum would
> be not a good idea?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Andrew
>
>
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