[Ocfs2-users] Problem mounting volume on second node after uncontrolled reboot.

[Asle Næss]

On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Asle Næss wrote:

> 
> On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Joel Becker wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:32:12AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
>>> Could be that the device has been claimed by some other entity. Like lvm, multipath, etc. 
>> 
>> 	Yeah, the EBUSY would make that seem likely.  Is there anything
>> in /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/holders/?
> 
> It's not claimed by LVM, but I'll dig a bit further into multipath.
> 
> /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/holders/ has no files: 
> 
> $ ls -lh /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/holders/
> total 0

And yes, it was the multipath that held the device. 
Solution was to mount the mulitpath device in /dev/mapper/ and not /dev/sda1 directly.

Thanks!

Asle