Using a cluster-wide shared repository to provide the latest consistent definition of the cluster (avoiding the partition-in time problem)

摘要

A quorumless network cluster provides a highly available system by addressing the partition-in-space and partition-in-time problems in network clusters.;In a particular solution, a cluster manager (CM) can use disk based messaging to manage the operation of the cluster. Each node within the cluster must have access to a shared disk to operate within the cluster.;A particular methodology can operate the cluster in a closed loop between nodes 1 to N. If a node fails to receive a heartbeat message from its predecessor in the loop, it initiates a cluster reconfiguration by sending a reconfiguration message to each other node in the cluster.;The quorumless cluster can also include a common storage for a cluster definition. Each node may provide a proposed change to the cluster definition, however only a single coordinator node may update the cluster definition and apply the suggested changes.