[Linux-cluster] GFS locks recovery

Christos Triantafillou c_triantafillou at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 29 22:02:23 UTC 2007


>Yes.  Did the remaining node have quorum when you killed the other?  If
>not, then you should set two_node=1 in cluster.conf so it will.  Fencing,
>dlm recovery and gfs recovery won't happen unless there's quorum; after
>this recovery, the locks you want should be granted (regardless of whether
>the other node has rebooted or not).

Is there a way to see whether a node has the quorum at any given time?
Or whether GFS recovery has taken place?

>Either, possibly; you'd have to try it out.  GFS works much better with
>flock (although that's not interruptible either), if that's an option.

How flock() works better than fcntl() on GFS?

Thanks,
Christos

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