RE: RHCS cluster without quorum ?

Lon Hohberger <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:08:32 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.piranha
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 12:09 +0100, Murphy, Greg (GE Consumer Finance)
wrote:
> Hi Mat
>  
> I don't think RHCM can be set up without the shared partitions (but I
> may be wrong..) as even with just IP failover the partitions are used
> for inter-machine communication and heartbeats as well as the network
> interconnect. If you're trying to avoid having any costly shared disks
> attached, one option would be to use NBDs (Network Block Devices)
> which can be used as raw devices by multiple nodes - this may work.

Generally, that's the case.  You need shared storage to do it.  I've
heard of people using firewire for testing, but haven't done it myself.

-- Lon