Mounting more than 60 GFS/GFS2 file systems with Red Hat Cluster Suite results in hangs and fences

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Issue

  • Mounting more than 60 GFS/GFS2 file systems results in system hangs and eventual fences
  • One of my gfs2 filesystems fails to mount with the error:
mount point already used or other mount in progress
error mounting lockproto lock_dlm

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Cluster Suite
  • Greater than 60 GFS and/or GFS2 file systems

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