With a 3node gfs1 cluster, and if i hard reset 1 node, it hangs on startup, although the cluster seems to return to normal. Nodes: node2, node3, node4 each node has 1 vote, and a qdisk has 2 votes. If I reset node3, gfs on node2 and node4 is blocked while node3 restarts. First question: is there a config that will allow the cluster to continue operating while 1 node is down? My quorum is 3 and total votes is 4 while node3 is restarting, but my gfs mountpoints are inaccessible until my cman services start up on node3. Secondly, when node3 restarts, it hangs when trying to remount gfs file systems. Starting cman Mounting configfs...done Starting ccsd...done Starting cman...done Starting daemons...done Starting fencing...done OK qdiskd OK "Mounting other file systems..." OK Mounting GFS filesystems: GFS 0.1.1-7.el5 installed Trying to join cluster "lock_dlm","jemdevcluster:cache1" dlm: Using TCP for communications dlm: connecting to 2 dlm: got connection to 2 dlm: connecting to 2 dlm: got connection from 4 After that, system just hangs. >From nodes 2 & 4, i can run cman_tool, and everything shows that the cluster is up, except for some services: [root@node2 cache1]# cman_tool services type level name id state fence 0 default 00010004 none [2 3 4] dlm 1 cache1 00010003 none [2 3 4] dlm 1 storage 00030003 none [2 4] gfs 2 cache1 00000000 none [2 3 4] gfs 2 storage 00020003 none [2 4] [root@node2 cache1]# cman_tool nodes Node Sts Inc Joined Name 0 M 0 2008-08-12 16:11:46 /dev/sda5 2 M 336 2008-08-12 16:11:12 node2 3 M 352 2008-08-12 16:44:31 node3 4 M 344 2008-08-12 16:11:12 node4 I have 2 gfs partitions [root@node4 CentOS]# grep gfs /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /gfs/cache1 gfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 /gfs/storage gfs defaults 0 0 At this point, I am unable to unmount /gfs/cache1 from any of my nodes (node2 or node4) - it just hangs. I can unmount storage with no problem. Is there something I am overlooking? Any and all advice welcome :) Regards, Brett -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster