> Yes, all the documentation seems to be hammering LVM down user's throat > for some unfathomable reason. You can just mkfs.gfs -myoptions > /dev/mygfsblockdevice Whew, so it's not just me :). > was somewhere in cluster.conf disagreements between nodes, and package > versions not being up to date. Also make sure you start various things > using the scripts under /etc/init.d, rather than starting things up > manually. I'll triple check that at this point. > What distro are you using? Rhel4 > Just blow away the LVM (uninstall the clvm package, just to make sure), So, both lvm2 and lvm2-cluster, just to be sure? There are endless dependencies for these. Remove without deps then? And, on all nodes? > dd if=/dev/zero > /dev/mygfsblockdevice bs=1024 count=1024 On the /dev/sda in my case then. > Start up cman, gfs, ccsd services, and it should work, if your > cluster.conf is working. Yup, the cluster is in fact up and running, just the storage problems. > Also remember that you need nodes to be quorate No problem. Mike -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster