[Info-vax] hostunavailable

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jq53db$8h$1 at news.belwue.de>, gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> after enabling shadowing on a node its device names change from "MPI1$DKxxx" to
> "$1$DKxxx". So far, so good. But nodes in the cluster that saw these devices
> before now list them as "hostunavailable". And it is now impossible to mount
> a disk of "$1$DKxxx" into the cluster because the other nodes don't see
> the new device. They still see the old naming. Thus, is there a way to get
> rid of the old devices and have the new ones instead, other than to reboot
> every node? It's OpenVMS 7.3-2 on Alphas.
> 

   The other nodes in the cluster should pick up every served disk.  If
   not, they may be resource starved.  If this is true then they
   probably need a reboot to free up the resources associated with the
   old names.

   But first, I'd make sure the "hostunavailable" disks don't show up
   as mounted.  Try doing a forced dismount.  A lot of resources are
   tied to a mounted disk.