On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Watanabe, Steve wrote:
This means that the owning node keeps the quorum by reasserting the reservation every, say, 1 second. A different node can determine if the owning node is still up (say there's a network partition and they cannot talk) by blowing away the reservation, waiting 2 seconds, and then attempting to do the reserve. If the owner is still up it will have reasserted the reservation.
Sounds like this method is fraught with race conditions, if you have more than two nodes participating (which I suppose why Microsoft only recommends a two-node cluster). Anyway, I didn't mean to turn this into an MSCS thread... just wanted to know what role filers can continue to play in a clustered NT/2K environment. Thanks. :)