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

[Andrew D. Ball]

>From /var/log/messages:

Jul 16 17:06:43 enva11 kernel: (29933,2):ocfs2_broadcast_vote:725 ERROR:
status 
= -107
Jul 16 17:06:43 enva11 kernel: (29933,2):ocfs2_do_request_vote:798
ERROR: status
 = -107
Jul 16 17:06:43 enva11 kernel: (29933,2):ocfs2_rename:1196 ERROR: status
= -107

The userspace error is a failed invocation of the mv command.  I know
that the return code is not 0, but didn't capture it.  I can re-run
tomorrow if that would be helpful.

Thanks for your prompt response!

Peace,
Andrew

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:31 -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> 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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