This time after rebooting both nodes, neither one shows /firewall-scripts mounted after a login. But mount -av by hand is successful on both nodes. Fw1 and fw2 both behave identically. Here is what fw1 looks like. Fw2 is identical. This aspect of the problem is screaming timing glitch. login as: root root at 10.10.10.71's password: Last login: Mon Jul 15 15:19:41 2013 from tinahp100b.infrasupport.local [root at chicago-fw1 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora-root 14G 3.9G 8.7G 31% / devtmpfs 990M 0 990M 0% /dev tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 996M 888K 996M 1% /run tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /tmp /dev/sda2 477M 87M 365M 20% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 9.4M 191M 5% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/fedora-gluster--fw1 7.9G 33M 7.8G 1% /gluster-fw1 [root at chicago-fw1 ~]# mount -av / : ignored /boot : already mounted /boot/efi : already mounted /gluster-fw1 : already mounted swap : ignored extra arguments at end (ignored) /firewall-scripts : successfully mounted [root at chicago-fw1 ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora-root 14G 3.9G 8.7G 31% / devtmpfs 990M 0 990M 0% /dev tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 996M 888K 996M 1% /run tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 996M 0 996M 0% /tmp /dev/sda2 477M 87M 365M 20% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 9.4M 191M 5% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/fedora-gluster--fw1 7.9G 33M 7.8G 1% /gluster-fw1 192.168.253.1:/firewall-scripts 7.6G 19M 7.2G 1% /firewall-scripts [root at chicago-fw1 ~]# - Greg