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Red Hat Cluster Suite 4 RHEL4 U4 Release Notes
Copyright(c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc.
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September 19, 2006
Introduction
The following topics are covered in this document:
o Changes to Red Hat Cluster Suite 4
o Important Notes
o Bugs Fixed in the Release
o Related Documentation
Changes to Red Hat Cluster Suite 4
Quorum Disk
Quorum Disk is a new feature available with this release. The
Quorum Disk feature (also known as qdisk) allows you to configure
arbitrary heuristics so that each cluster member can determine its
fitness for participating in a cluster. The fitness information is
communicated to other cluster members via a "quorum disk" residing
on shared storage.
With properly configured heuristics, you could define the following
cluster behavior:
* In the event of a network-partition failure, provide a method to
decide which member wins the fence race in a two-node cluster.
* Allow continued cluster operation after a majority failure without
manual intervention.
Quorum Disk communicates with CMAN, ccsd (the Cluster Configuration
System daemon), and shared storage. It communicates with CMAN to
advertise quorum-device availability. It communicates with ccsd to
obtain configuration information. It communicates with shared storage to
check and record states.
You can find more information about Quorum Disk in the following man
pages: mkqdisk(, qdiskd(, and qdisk(5).
NOTE: For this release, you must configure Quorum Disk by editing
the cluster configuration file, /etc/cluster/cluster.conf, directly
rather than by using the cluster configuration graphical user
interface (system-config-cluster).
ccs_tool Enhancements
The ccs_tool includes new commands for this release. The new
commands provide the ability to configure certain portions of the
cluster configuration file (/etc/cluster/cluster.conf). In previous
releases, the only tool available for creating and managing the
cluster configuration file was the Cluster Configuration GUI
(system-config-cluster). For more information about the new commands
and usage examples, refer to the ccs_tool man page, ccs_tool(.
Important Notes
The up2date command has changed for RHEL4 U4. When installing
cluster suite software, use this syntax:
up2date --installall=<channel-label> |
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