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.TH QUORUM_OVERVIEW 3 2012-02-09 "corosync Man Page" "Corosync Cluster Engine Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
quorum_overview \- Quorum Library Overview
.SH OVERVIEW
The quorum library is delivered with the corosync project. It is the external interface to
the quorum service. This service is loaded into all nodes in a corosync cluster and track
the quorum status of a node. In order for quorum service to be useful, a quorum provider
must be configured.
.PP
The library provides a mechanism to:
.PP
* Query the quorum status
.PP
* Receive notifications of quorum state changes
.SH BUGS
No known bugs at the time of writing. The authors are from outerspace. Deal with it.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR corosync-quorumtool (8),
.BR corosync.conf (5),
.BR votequorum (5),
.BR quorum_initialize (3),
.BR quorum_finalize (3),
.BR quorum_getquorate (3),
.BR quorum_trackstart (3),
.BR quorum_trackstop (3),
.BR quorum_fd_get (3),
.BR quorum_dispatch (3),
.BR quorum_context_set (3),
.BR quorum_context_get (3)
.PP