On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:26 -0600, Brad Filipek wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 2 node cluster connected via fibre to a SAN. This is an > active/passive cluster and an EXT3 file system is mounted when the > cluster services start on the active node. If we try to access data on > this mount immediately after it is mounted, it takes an extremely long > time. However, after about an hour, it runs extremely fast and is fine > for good (until we un-mount and re-mount it, then it is slow again). > So my question is, when you mount an ext3 partition (without any mount > options), does it do something like scan the whole partition to see > what is on the disk? This is the only thing I can think of that makes > sense. The mount is 500GB in size. Did you specify force_fsck or something? -- Lon -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster