Re: [Linux-cluster] A few GFS newbie questions: journals, etc

[Nate Carlson <natecars natecarlson com>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> Yes, as long as more than half the VMs were on the surviving node as 
> well...
>
> If exactly half of the nodes votes disappear, a quorum no longer exists 
> (except in the 2-node special case).  Suppose there were 4 VMs:
>
>   2 x 50 votes = 100 votes
>     4 x 1 vote =   4 votes
>          Total = 104 votes
> ---------------------------
> Need for quorum =  53 votes

Is it possible to tweak the votes needed for quorum with 'expected_votes'? 
I've been playing with it a bit, and it seems to work.

Really, in my case, as long as one of physical hosts is still up, I'd 
still like to have a quorum.

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