woohoo. I wrongly had ext3 in my cluster config as you said. removed that, removed that whole fs line so that the cluster would not try to mount it.. Mounted the /mnt/gfs from my /etc/fstab like the faq said.. restarted everyone and now things work exactly as expected. thanks Lon! Jason On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Lon Hohberger wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 20:43 -0500, jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > so the main mountpoint for my gfs filesystem is /mnt/gfs, but my apache htdocs root is at > > /mnt/gfs/htdocs > > so after I changed my /etc/cluster/cluster.conf > > to be > > <fs device="/dev/mapper/diskarray-lv1" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/mnt/gfs" name="apache_content"/> > > > > my /mnt/gfs does not get mounted anymore when the cluster servers start up.. whats the correct way > > to do this? > > It looked like it was getting mounted elsewhere, like in fstab. The > logs indicated thusly: > > - <warning> Device /dev/mapper/diskarray-lv1 is mounted > on /mnt/gfs instead of /mnt/gfs/htdocs > > That meant, I think, that you had it configured to be mounted > on /mnt/gfs/htdocs, but it was currently mounted on /mnt/gfs. The > cluster got confused and tried to unmount it, and that didn't work. > > I kind of missed the fact that the file system was ext3 the first time > around; in that case, you should *not* have it in /etc/fstab at all -- > otherwise it could be mounted on both nodes on startup (very bad - and > it could possibly explain why unmounting it failed...!). > > -- Lon > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- ================================================ | Jason Welsh jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | http://monsterjam.org DSS PGP: 0x5E30CC98 | | gpg key: http://monsterjam.org/gpg/ | ================================================
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