[Linux-ha-dev] Ask for suggestion of quorum server

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Thu Sep 28 14:32:37 MDT 2006


On 2006-09-28T13:29:57, Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Honestly I don't really understand the whole idea of that. The
> document says that the best way to implement that is to put quorumd
> server on the third site. To me it sounds like implementing a single
> point of failure.
> 
> - What will happen if that third place gets disconnected?
> - What will happen if quorumd server dies?

These are non-issues. As long as the sites themselves are not
partitioned, the quorum server doesn't matter. It is not a SPoF.

> - Does one has to implement one more subcluster for quorumd?

sites, yes.


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