Re: Partitioned cluster question (reboot during lost quorum)

In article <4TM1g.6582$Bt3.4752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Hoff Hoffman
<hoff-remove-this@xxxxxx> writes:

JF Mezei wrote:
Hoff Hoffman wrote:
If you want to boot outside the cluster, then I tend to prefer to
avoid enabling NISCS_LOAD_PEA0 and I don't load VAXCLUSTER.

No, the idea is to be able to boot one node first before you bring in
the other ones, so that first one has to form the cluster and the others
join in later.

Welll, my own idea is to be able to boot distinctly and completely
and fully outside the cluster, and to thus reduce the chances of
creatively configured corruptions.

My goal is to win with the least effort and the least risk, and -- as
a rule, I prefer to configure and operate the configuration such that I
don't have to get "creative". I'd prefer to win by avoiding the battle,
because battles are expensive and wasteful. (Yes, I've been re-reading
a translation of a very old book, but I digress.) If I can configure to
avoid the problem (through hardware or software upgrades, or documented
management procedures and sequences), then I will.

Something else JF might want to try, which I think Hoff has also
mentioned here before, is to set up various system roots with various
parameters, perhaps with and without VAXcluster etc, then boot from a
non-standard root if required.

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