[Linux-cluster] CCA Partition Invisible from 2nd Node

[Wendy Cheng]

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:52 +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm in the process of building an Oracle cluster on RHAS 3.0 // GFS
> 6.0 using 2 x GL580s, an MSA1000 and a DL380 for the quorum server,
> but have encountered what seems to be a problem with the secondary
> node seeing the CCA partition, and thus not being able to read the ccs
> files, preventing me from starting ccsd on that node.
> 
....

> I can see these partitions with fdisk on both nodes:
> 
> D
> isk /dev/sda: 18.2 GB, 18207375360 bytes
> /dev/sda1             1        13    104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            14        26    104422+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            27      2213  17567077+  83  Linux
> Disk /dev/sdb: 18.2 GB, 18207375360 bytes
> /dev/sdb1             1        13    104391   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2            14        26    104422+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb3            27      2213  17567077+  83  Linux
> Disk /dev/sdc: 18.2 GB, 18207375360 bytes
> Disk /dev/sdd: 54.6 GB, 54622126080 bytes
> 

GFS obtains its disk information from /proc/partitions file - check this
proc file from your "secondary" node to see whether array A and B are
seen by Linux at all (and/or check the /var/log/dmesg file to be sure).
Did you reboot between checking with fdisk and pool_info command on
"secondary" ? 

-- Wendy