[Ocfs2-users] Avoid node reboot on timeout

[srinivas eeda]

If you run ocfs2 file system in cluster mode, then all nodes have to 
heartbeat to each other on network and storage within a timeout value. 
You can increase the timeout values to tolerate huge delays.

On 12/5/2012 1:47 AM, Sébastien RICCIO wrote:
> Hi OCFS2 list :)
>
> We are currently using XCP (XenServer opensource) with mixed shared
> storage (some NFS and some OCFS2).
> Everything works quite well except that when we have a network
> interruption or problem on the filer providing the ocfs2 iscsi target,
> all the machines connected to it reboots after a certain amount of time,
> instead of keeping to try  a reconnect.
>
> It seems it's due to ocfs2 that is fencing the node if it can't write to
> the storage after an amount of time.
>
> With nfs we don't have this problem, if the nfs filer goes down it just
> waits until it comes back and resume the operations.
>
> Since we use ocfs2 all the nodes are now rebooted, that means we have to
> restart each VM and this take a long time.
>
> Is there a way to disable that ocfs2 behavior so our hosts doesn't
> reboot automatically ?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Cheers,
> Sébastien
>
>
>
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