[Info-vax] troubles with quorum disk

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In article <6fba4cf0-5d80-4606-803e-a6994f2debdf at googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> writes:
>On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:16:17 AM UTC-8, Pierre wrote:
>> On Monday, January 7, 2013 11:07:57 PM UTC+1, Michael Moroney wrote:
>[...]
>> > You have EXPECTED_VOTES=3 yet you have 2 votes for the
>> > quorum disk and 1 for each cluster member.  This adds up
>> > to 4, not 3.
>> > 
>> > With QDSKVOTES=2, your cluster cannot run unless you have
>> > your quorum disk's votes.
>> 
>> that's the idea. I want my cluster to run with at least one
>> node but the quorum disk is mandatory. hence the nodes voting
>> 1, the QD voting 2 and the expected votes 3.
>
>After rereading this last sentence, I'll say again that you've
>made things far too complicated.  *If* your desire is to make
>the quorum disk mandatory (why in the world would you want to do that???), then give the quorum disk one vote, the two nodes each
>zero votes, set expected_votes to one and be done with it!

But then, we wouldn't have had all of this comp.os.vms detritus!

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