'clustat' and 'cman_tool nodes' show the quorum disk as offline on non-master nodes when using master_wins in RHEL 5
Issue
- The quorum device appears as "offline" in
clustatoutput on the second node of my cluster:
[root@jrummy5-2 ~]# clustat
Cluster Status for jrummy5 @ Fri Feb 1 08:59:43 2013
Member Status: Quorate
Member Name ID Status
------ ---- ---- ------
jrummy5-1-clust.ruemker.pvt 1 Online
jrummy5-2-clust.ruemker.pvt 2 Online, Local
/dev/dm-3 0 Offline, Quorum Disk
cman_tool nodesshows the quorum device with an "x" (offline) on the non-master node in the cluster:
[root@jrummy5-2 ~]# cman_tool nodes
Node Sts Inc Joined Name
0 X 0 /dev/dm-3
1 M 9736 2013-02-01 08:58:55 jrummy5-1-clust.ruemker.pvt
2 M 9732 2013-02-01 08:58:55 jrummy5-2-clust.ruemker.pvt
cman_tool statusshows "Quorum device votes" on the first node in my cluster, but not the second:
[root@jrummy5-1 ~]# cman_tool status | grep "Quorum device"
Quorum device votes: 1
[root@jrummy5-1 ~]#
[root@jrummy5-2 ~]# cman_tool status | grep "Quorum device"
[root@jrummy5-2 ~]#
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 with the High Availability Add On
- A quorum device configured in
master_winsmode (<quorumd master_wins="1">) in/etc/cluster/cluster.conf
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