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<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">I am using multipath devices /dev/md0...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"> from a SAN,</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"> mounted on 2 nodes in a cluster</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"> using OCFS2. The OCFS2 mountpoints are visible and writable from both nodes. However CRS installation fails to recognize the device as a shared device for OCR location.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Cluvfy does not work on multipath devices for testing shared storage.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Has anybody encountered similar problems ?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial"> </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Any help will be greatly appreciated.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Sachin Vaidya </FONT></P>
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