[Info-vax] The Road to V9.0

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <gojge4Ffv6cU1 at mid.individual.net>, Hans Bachner
<hans at bachner.priv.at> writes: 

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) schrieb am 09.07.2019 um 09:36:
> > In article <d8d756f6-2ff8-4f00-942a-6c8d2b287018 at googlegroups.com>, Jon
> > Pinkley <jon.pinkley at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Also, are there any initial plans about how shadowed system disks will
> >> be handled when the system disk is not the quorum disk?
> >
> > Is there ever a situation where it would make sense to have the system
> > disk be the quorum disk?
> 
> If it is a non-shadowed shared disk it might as well serve as a quorum disk.

Right, but a cluster is (also) about availability, and a non-shadowed 
system disk is a single point of failure---in this case, for both nodes.

> > Why is the question of shadowed system disks related to the question of
> > a quorum disk?
> 
> A quorum disk can't be a shadow member anyway.

Right.