Hi, A strange situation happened here in our five-node GFS cluster. Two of the nodes (lxserv1-gfs and web1-gfs) were fenced off due to an administrator error. We still should have been able to run smoothly but two nodes got disallowed(?!) and so only one vote remained. From the last standing node: root@saturn:~# cman_tool status Version: 6.0.1 Config Version: 6 Cluster Name: kfki Cluster Id: 1583 Cluster Member: Yes Cluster Generation: 2332 Membership state: Cluster-Member Nodes: 4 Expected votes: 5 Total votes: 1 Quorum: 3 Active subsystems: 7 Flags: DisallowedNodes Ports Bound: 0 11 Node name: saturn-gfs Node ID: 5 Multicast addresses: 224.0.0.3 Node addresses: 192.168.192.18 Disallowed nodes: lxserv0-gfs web0-gfs Why and how does a node get disallowed? How could we prevent it to happen in the future? Best regards, Jozsef -- E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address: KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster