[Info-vax] reboot due to network failure

[Michael Moroney]

helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:

>In article <jc7s1f$nov$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
>(Michael Moroney) writes: 

>> When connection is restored, these sub-clusters see each other and resolve
>> their differences via hara-kiri.  The rules are as follows: The subcluster
>> with the most votes "wins". Members of other subclusters reboot.  If a
>> tie: (3 way tie in your case), the subcluster with the most nodes win (two
>> servers with 1 vote each beats a 2 vote server).  In your case, again a 3
>> way tie.  At this point, I was told by a cluster engineer that it was
>> essentially random who won.  (over the years I've also heard it was the
>> subcluster with the lowest SCSNODE in it, and the subcluster with the
>> highest SCSNODE in it, obviously at least one of these must be wrong)

>Both are wrong.  In my case, it was the one with SCSSYSTEMID in the 
>middle.

Sorry, brain fart on my part.  I meant SCSSYSTEMID where I wrote SCSNODE.
Anyway, if the node with the SCSSYSTEMID in the middle "won", you proved
both wrong, and my coworker was likely correct (random or at least a 
complicated algorithm).