[Linux-cluster] quickie GFS with lock_nolock question

[Charlie Brady]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jason Welsh wrote:

> we have a funky custom application that doesnt seem to like
> reading/writing to the shared GFS filesystem ...

What is your definition of "doesn't seem to like reading/writing"?

> we have on our 2node
> cluster. someone at the vendor suggested just having the main node mount
> the GFS filesystem with "lock_nolock" to see if that would fix the problem.

"fix" the problem? Or just hide it?