[Linux-cluster] About quorum disk and GFS2 on rhel5

[Robert Peterson]

carlopmart wrote:
> hi all,
> 
>  I have a question about quorum disk and gfs2-utils on rhel5:
> 
>  a) Do i need to use a raw partition for quorum disks or formatted 
> partition ? If I need to use a raw partition, where is rawdevices script 
> present on rhel 4.x ??
>  b) about gfs2: which param do i need to put on fstab to mount gfs2 
> filesystem on every boot ?? I have inserted _netdev param but gfs2 
> startup script returns this error: GFS2: can't parse mount arguments. 
> /sbin/mount.gfs2: error 22 mounting /dev/sda2 on /data.
> 
>   If I change _netdev for defaults, works ok when system is up, but when 
> I reboot, filesystem doesn't mounts ...
> 
> many thanks ..
> 

Hi,

Regarding (a): I'm not a qdisk expert, but I know the man page has
   lots of good information about this.
Regarding (b): This is a known problem.  There's a bugzilla here
   that contains a patch:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235204

In theory, you should also be able to do: chkconfig gfs2 on to get
the gfs2 startup script to run at init time, and that should take
care of mounting gfs2 partitions for you.

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Cluster Suite