<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.14.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On a related note, what is the correct value for clean_start in cluster.conf? <fence_daemon clean_start="1" post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/> The man page states it should be set to zero "0"... you have it set to "1", which intuitively, makes more sense. <TT> To disable fencing at domain-creation time entirely, the -c option can</TT> <TT> be used to declare that all nodes are in a clean or safe state to</TT> <TT> start. The clean_start cluster.conf option can also be set to do</TT> <TT> this, but automatically disabling startup fencing in cluster.conf can</TT> <TT> risk file system corruption.</TT> <TT> Clean-start is used to prevent any startup fencing the daemon might</TT> <TT> do. It indicates that the daemon should assume all nodes are in a</TT> <TT> clean state to start.</TT> <TT> <fence_daemon clean_start="0"></TT> <TT> </fence_daemon></TT> </BODY> </HTML>