on 2-17-2009 3:00 AM Sven Kaptein | MARS websolutions spake the following:

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Dear List,

I have one last little problem with setting up an cluster. My gfs Mount will hang as soon as I do an iptables restart on one of the nodes..

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Undoubtedly someone else with more experience with GFS will give you an answer, but to me this makes me think ip_conntrack stuff gets cleared out and sessions have to reestablish themselves.

Ray

Ray,

Thanks for your fast answer and getting me into the right direction. This sounds like a possible solution, but I have no clue how to fix it. I googled already a lot on ip_conntrack + gfs, but don't see a possible solution coming up.

Can someone/you please help me a little bit more with the issue?

Thanks a lot! Sven

Are your GFS mounts and your cluster on different sides of the firewall?

Maybe you can do something simple like a tunnel between the clusters and the mounts. Should be easier and safer than punching holes in the firewall. Or put a separate subnet or vlan just for the GFS traffic.