Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS volume locks during cluster node join/leave

[Alan Brown <ajb2 mssl ucl ac uk>]

Martijn Storck wrote:
> Hey, that's actually quite helpful for the shutdown problem. Thanks :)

No problem.

The reason for the hang is that if a host with mounted filesystems goes 
away, the others won't touch those filesystems until the cluster is sure 
it has been fenced, in order to reduce data corruption risk.

> Martijn
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Alan Brown <ajb2 mssl ucl ac uk> wrote:
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> > Martijn Storck wrote:
> >
> > > Is this expected behaviour?
> > Yes.
> >
> >
> >  Is there anything we can do to reduce these delays?
> > Unmount all clustered filesystems on the host before rebooting.
> >
> > AB
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