[Gluster-users] Why is it not possible to mount a replicated gluster volume with one Gluster server?

[Joe Julian]

On 08/31/2015 10:41 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On Monday 31 August 2015 10:42 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
>>  > 2. Server2 dies. Server1 has to reboot.
>>  >
>>  > In this case the service stays down. It is inpossible to remount the
>> share without Server1. This is not acceptable for a High Availability
>> System and I believe also not intended, but a misconfiguration or bug.
>> This is exactly what I gave as an example in the thread (please read
>> again). GlusterD is not supposed to start brick process if its other
>> counter part hasn't come up yet in a 2 node setup. The reason it has
>> been designed in this way is to block GlusterD on operating on a volume
>> which could be stale as the node was down and cluster was operational
>> earlier.
>
> For two node deployments, a third dummy node is recommended to ensure 
> that quorum is maintained when one of the nodes is down.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay

Have the settings changed to enable server quorum by default?