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

[Andrew D. Ball]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 16:17 -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Ahh... this is a 1.2 "feature". :)
> 
> In 1.2, the fs does messaging (votes) for mount/umount, rename,
> unlink and delete. So the said operations can fail... if a node dies
> during the voting process.
> 
> We have addressed this issue in mainline. Sometime in 2.6.18/19.
> As in, rename, unlink and delete now use the dlm and thus should
> no longer fail on a node death.
> 

Should these start working again when retried after some amount of time?
I can't have them fail forever, and if mount/unmount don't work, that
would likely make it very hard to recover.

Peace,
Andrew

> Andrew D. Ball wrote:
> > >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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