[DRBD-user] DRBD8 and GFS issues

[Florian Haas]

Tiago,

Tiago Cruz wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'm trying to use one cluster with 2 nodes, using DRDB 8.x and GFS 1.x
> on RHEL 5.2 x84_64.
> 
> The problem is: Then one machine was gone (node2) the node1 stop to work
> (one simple 'ls -l' on shared mounted point) until the second machine
> return.

Welcome to GFS. This works exactly as designed. GFS freezes all I/O if
it loses a node, until that node returns or is fenced.

Cheers,
Florian

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