Re: Partitioned cluster question (reboot during lost quorum)

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
In article <1145449215.629422.111660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
etmsreec@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

That said, I know of at least one system manager that specifically sets
his clusters up with an EXPECTED_VOTES of 1 on every node so that
should the network links fail and should they need to reboot one node
all alone in the event of a failure that affects the other nodes they
can do so. I see his line of reasoning, but don't necessarily agree.

In that case, do a minimum boot. This guy can get toasted by a partitioned cluster.

Ayup. One of the local engineers accidentally booted into that configuration, with a simple console command mistake and mis-set voting parameters and a shared SCSI. The corruptions that resulted were quite impressive.
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