----- Original Message ----- | Good morning; | We have a critical Oracle application running on a two node Red Hat | clustered environment. (RHEL5u5) | | | Red Hat clustering has worked extremely well for us; we have achieved | better performance and improved reliability at a substantial reduced | cost. | | | The issue is that when the system reboots, it takes over an hour to | perform | an âfsckâ on a 1.8T gfs file-system. We cannot afford this down-time. | | | Is the âfsckâ at boot time required on a gfs file-system? Hi, No, fsck is _not_ required for gfs at boot time. Offhand, I'd have to say you do _not_ want to run gfs_fsck at boot time because then it does not know whether the volume is currently mounted on other nodes. If it is mounted elsewhere, the fsck can cause damage. Of course, there are special caveats and circumstances, like open-shared root, single-node gfs, and such. When in doubt, call the Red Hat support people because they usually know best. Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat File Systems -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
