[Info-vax] hostunavailable

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:22:03 +0000, Christoph Gartmann wrote:

> 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.
> 

This brings back memories of seeing the same, and yes, rebooting every 
node was the answer.

-- 
Paul Sture