From: Manuel Federanko <m.federanko@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH docs] qdevice: correct qdevice partition tie breaking section.
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:57:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220125709.59612-1-m.federanko@proxmox.com> (raw)
The partition that gets a vote is not randomly chosen, but depends on
the configuration of the qdevice in corosync.conf.
A partner asked about predictable behavior for vote casting by the
QDevice. The documentation of corosync and ours didn't align.
Setting tie_breaker influences how a partition is chosen for votes,
which was tested with a 2-node test-cluster.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Federanko <m.federanko@proxmox.com>
---
pvecm.adoc | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pvecm.adoc b/pvecm.adoc
index 0ed1bd2..899a4de 100644
--- a/pvecm.adoc
+++ b/pvecm.adoc
@@ -1266,8 +1266,10 @@ Tie Breaking
^^^^^^^^^^^^
In case of a tie, where two same-sized cluster partitions cannot see each other
-but can see the QDevice, the QDevice chooses one of those partitions randomly
-and provides a vote to it.
+but can see the QDevice, the QDevice chooses the partition which has
+the lowest node id and provides a vote to it. This behavior can be tuned with
+the configuration option `tie_breaker` (see `man corosync-qdevice` for more
+information) and requires a restart of `corosync-qdevice.service` on all nodes.
Possible Negative Implications
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-20 12:56 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-20 12:57 Manuel Federanko [this message]
2026-02-20 13:27 ` Maximiliano Sandoval
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