I put some debug code into the gfs2 module and I see it failing the mount at this point: /* * If user space has failed to join the cluster or some similar * failure has occurred, then the journal id will contain a * negative (error) number. This will then be returned to the * caller (of the mount syscall). We do this even for spectator * mounts (which just write a jid of 0 to indicate "ok" even though * the jid is unused in the spectator case) */ if (sdp->sd_lockstruct.ls_jid < 0) { Now to find out who¹s stick -PERM into ls_jid. Neale -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster