Do I need to make changes to my GFS/GFS2 file systems when renaming the cluster in RHEL?
Issue
- Need to change the name of a pre-existing cluster that has associated GFS or GFS2 file-system(s)
- Changing A GFS2 locktable Name
- What changes should be done to a gfs2 filesystem after changing the cluster name ?
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After changing
<cluster name>
attribute in/etc/cluster/cluster.conf
, GFS or GFS2 file system fails to mount:# mount -t gfs2 /dev/clust/lv1 /mnt/lv1 fs is for a different cluster error mounting lockproto lock_dlm
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, 7 or 8 with the Resilient Storage Add On
- GFS or GFS2
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