[Info-vax] set cluster/expected_votes

[Michael Moroney]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <c41d7d72-7163-4436-9ddd-e46e1fa0888f at k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> Do you have a quorum disk? I thought that such a creature existed for
>> this very purpose: to keep a cluster going with what would normally be
>> too few nodes.

>   To be really usefull, a quorum disk needs to be dual-pathed and hold 
>   the cluster common files.

A quorum disk is essentially worthless unless it's multipathed.  If it's
not, its votes add to quorum only if the node that hosts it is up.  Since
cluster transitions are slower when a quorum disk is involved, it's better
to simply give its votes to the system that hosts it.