[Linux-cluster] GFS problems!!!

[Gordan Bobic]

Are you using GFS or GFS2? GFS2 doesn't work yet, at least not in the 
released RPMs.

Gordan

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, James Fillman wrote:

> Ok. I'm trying to implement GFS on two different clusters: 9 nodes, 17
> nodes.
>
> I'm having nothing but troubles. The gfs volumes are freezing and
> throwing the cluster into a bad state. Currently, this is the state of
> my cluster:
>
> [root at plxp01md-new log]# cman_tool services
> type             level name     id       state
> fence            0     default  00010004 none
> [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
> dlm              1     clvmd    00010003 none
> [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
> dlm              1     mdi_log  00020001 FAIL_START_WAIT
> [1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9]
> dlm              1     deploy   00040001 FAIL_START_WAIT
> [1 4 6 7 8 9]
> gfs              2     mdi_log  00010001 FAIL_START_WAIT
> [1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9]
> gfs              2     deploy   00030001 FAIL_START_WAIT
>
> I have no idea what happened. I've got users who are writing to a gfs
> volume and just came and reported to me that the volumes not responding.
> /var/log/messages has been outputting the following message, about 50
> times a second,  since Friday:
>
> Oct  9 13:54:35 plxp01deploy kernel: dlm: recover_master_copy -53 401ce
>
> Can someone tell me what FAIL_START_WAIT means and how to recover from
> it? Also, does anyone know what the log message above means?
>
> All my servers in the cluster are showing the same service states.
>
> I'm running RHEL5-64 bit.
>
> please help. I'm almost ready to give up on GFS. It seems way too
> unstable.
>
> James Fillman
>
>
>
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