[Info-vax] Wide area cluster, metro area network, seeking info

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sa93tk$pgh$1 at dont-email.me>, Mark Berryman
<mark at theberrymans.com> writes: 

> >>> When the failed node comes back up, the quorum disks will be excluded
> >>> again and the cluster will return to its original state.  The danger of
> >>> this configuration is that, if the communication channel between the two
> >>> nodes is lost but the nodes remain up, the cluster will partition.  This
> >>> is addressed in my original posting.
> >>
> >> Is this scenario supported?
> >>
> > No!
> 
> According to whom?
> 
> It was certainly supported by Digital when they gave me the set up back 
> in the 80s.

I suppose that it is possible that something was supported in the 1980s 
but not today, even if might still work (at least in some cases).