[OpenAFS-devel] File size limit exceeded

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:01:37 -0500 Mitch Collinsworth
> <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> > You will probably get various suggestions here.  One that would work
> > is to shutdown the database servers on the XP system until you are
> > able to upgrade it.  You're not actually gaining much by running the
> > databases on both servers, since neither server will run without the
> > other being up.  (1 vote out of 2 does not make a quorum.)
>
> Not true.
> Whatever server has the lowest IP address listed in the CellServDB will get
> an extra half vote.  This means in a cell with an even number of database
> servers partitioned exactly in half (or with half down), the group
> containing the lowest host will be able to achieve quorum.

Oops.  Thanks for the correction.  Was unaware of this feature.

-Mitch