[Linux-cluster] About quorum disk and GFS2 on rhel5

[carlopmart]

Robert Peterson wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>>  I have a question about quorum disk and gfs2-utils on rhel5:
>>
>>  a) Do i need to use a raw partition for quorum disks or formatted 
>> partition ? If I need to use a raw partition, where is rawdevices 
>> script present on rhel 4.x ??
>>  b) about gfs2: which param do i need to put on fstab to mount gfs2 
>> filesystem on every boot ?? I have inserted _netdev param but gfs2 
>> startup script returns this error: GFS2: can't parse mount arguments. 
>> /sbin/mount.gfs2: error 22 mounting /dev/sda2 on /data.
>>
>>   If I change _netdev for defaults, works ok when system is up, but 
>> when I reboot, filesystem doesn't mounts ...
>>
>> many thanks ..
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Regarding (a): I'm not a qdisk expert, but I know the man page has
>   lots of good information about this.
> Regarding (b): This is a known problem.  There's a bugzilla here
>   that contains a patch:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235204
> 
> In theory, you should also be able to do: chkconfig gfs2 on to get
> the gfs2 startup script to run at init time, and that should take
> care of mounting gfs2 partitions for you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob Peterson
> Red Hat Cluster Suite
> 
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> 
Thanks robert ... I find a solution to my problem about quorum disk, mkqdisk 
command...

But for gfs2, will Redhat release a patch to resolve this issue??

Many thanks ...


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