I have configured OCFS2 on two nodes OEL 5.8. while testing the availability of ocfs i am facing issues. here are the test case scenarios,

Network Service on Node-2 down (manually by using service network stop)

Result :
Node-1 is up, ocfs volumes are mountednode-2 get fenced (rebooted), joined cluster and mounted the ocfs volumes.

Network Service on Node-1 down (manually by using service network stop)

Result :
Node-1 is up, ocfs volumes are mountednode-2 get fenced (rebooted), unable to join cluster, ocfs volumes are not mounted, even if we try to mount manually, it returns error (mount.ocfs2: Transport endpoint is not connected while mounting /dev/sdb1 on /ocfs. Check 'dmesg' for more information on this error.



/var/log/messages


kernel: (mount.ocfs2,5806,17) :dlm_request_join:1040 ERROR: Error -107 when sending message 510 to node 0
kernel: (mount.ocfs2,5806,17) :dlm_try_to_join_domain:1216 Error: status = -107