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In a 2 node cluster, what happens if both nodes lose the heartbeat but they can still see the quorum disk? Don they still have quorum and cause split-brain?

April 26, 2017cause cluster disk happens heartbeat lose Node nodes quorum

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In a 2 node cluster, what happens if both nodes lose the heartbeat but they can still see the quorum disk? Don they still have quorum and cause split-brain?

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First of all, no, they don’t cause split-brain. As soon as heartbeat contact is lost, both nodes will realize something is wrong and lock GFS until it gets resolved and someone is fenced.