> Yes it is normal. The gulm lock manager requires a minimum of 3 nodes > in order to be able to determine who is master. With only two nodes > running and you lose one, the remaining node has no way to determine > that you are not in a split brain situation. So, the lock manager waits > until quorum is restored. For a two node cluster, you need to be > running the GFS 6.1 and DLM for a lock manager on a 2.6 kernel. aww man that blows.. ok, so assuming I get this Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 up to the 2.6 kernel and reinstall from the srpms at ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/RHGFS/i386/SRPMS does anyone forsee any problems?? I mean running the 6.1 GFS on the 2.6 kernel on a base Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 box? Jason -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster