[gpfsug-discuss] Tiebreaker disk question

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

This doesn't sound like normal behaviour. It shouldn't matter which
filesystem your tiebreaker disks belong to. I think the failure was caused
by something else, but am not able to guess from the little information you
posted.. The mmfs.log will probably tell you the reason.


-jf

ons. 3. mai 2017 kl. 19.08 skrev Shaun Anderson <SAnderson at convergeone.com>:

> We noticed some odd behavior recently.  I have a customer with a small
> Scale (with Archive on top) configuration that we recently updated to a
> dual node configuration.  We are using CES and setup a very small 3
> nsd shared-root filesystem(gpfssr).  We also set up tiebreaker disks and
> figured it would be ok to use the gpfssr NSDs for this purpose.
>
>
> When we tried to perform some basic failover testing, both nodes came
> down.  It appears from the logs that when we initiated the node failure
> (via mmshutdown command...not great, I know) it unmounts and remounts the
> shared-root filesystem.  When it did this, the cluster lost access to the
> tiebreaker disks, figured it had lost quorum and the other node came down
> as well.
>
>
> We got around this by changing the tiebreaker disks to our other normal
> gpfs filesystem.  After that failover worked as expected.  This is
> documented nowhere as far as I could find​.  I wanted to know if anybody
> else had experienced this and if this is expected behavior.  All is well
> now and operating as we want so I don't think we'll pursue a support
> request.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> *SHAUN ANDERSON*
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