On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Maciej Bogucki wrote: Hi, I saw this problem when i was looking at gfs as an option for an hpc cluster. Did you mount with oopses_ok? With that option, if one node has a problem, gfs mounts on other nodes too tend to hang needing a total cluster restart. Ideally, the nodes should panic when they have gfs problems and the other nodes would stay unaffected. Regards Balagopal > Hal napisa?(a): > > Hallo everybody, > > I have a test cluster of 4 machines. node0 - gnbd server and gnbd fence server > > and 3 nodes to mount gfs. The problem is that when I unplug one of the nodes, > > gfs locks and no one can access it until the node is reconnected. > > > > How can this lock be avoided if one node fails? > > How can I tell that gnbd-fencing is working at all? > > > > "gnbd_import -c node0" says nothing even if I do "fence_node node2" I assume > > fencing is not working am I right? > > Hello, > > It looks like You don't hava fencing properly configured. > You have to check Your logs, to see what is going on. > If Your fence agent failed, GFS filesystem will be freezed(no ro/rw > operations permited) until You perform manual fencing. > > Best Regards > Maciej Bogucki > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster