From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lon Hohberger Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:05:35 -0400 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] rhel5 cman: Clarify 'expected' option Message-ID: <1302185135-18242-1-git-send-email-lhh@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Shane Bradley Resolves: rhbz#688701 Signed-off-by: Lon Hohberger --- cman/man/cman_tool.8 | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/cman/man/cman_tool.8 b/cman/man/cman_tool.8 index 554a316..71e1841 100644 --- a/cman/man/cman_tool.8 +++ b/cman/man/cman_tool.8 @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ version of "leave force" so only use if if you really know what you are doing. Tells CMAN a new value of expected votes and instructs it to recalculate quorum based on this value. .br +The recalculation takes into account the number of currently +active nodes, so this option should not be used in an attempt to +artificially lower the quorum value in advance of a planned shutdown of +cluster nodes. Instead, the 'cman_tool leave remove' command should be +used (see the 'leave' subcommand above). +.br Use this option if your cluster has lost quorum due to nodes failing and you need to get it running again in a hurry. -- 1.7.3.4