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Conference decwet::winnt-clusters

Title:WinNT-Clusters
Notice:Info directories moved to DECWET::SHARE1$:[NT_CLSTR]
Moderator:DECWET::CAPPELLOF
Created:Thu Oct 19 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:863
Total number of notes:3478

683.0. "Lost File Shares Following Cluster Reboot" by PRMS01::HCARTER (M. Hill Carter @DTN 339-7781) Thu Mar 13 1997 20:07

    
    I have a customer running NT Clusters on AlphaServer 2100's
    who claims that his file shares were lost following a reboot
    of the Cluster. He claims that following the reboot all the
    file shares were "grayed out" and that he had to delete and
    recreate the file shares to get them to work. Since he has
    over 300 file shares, this is a lot of work and he does not
    want to go through this again.
    
    Has anyone else seen this problem or have any suggestions
    on recreating this many file shares with user protections
    should the shares be lost in a future reboot.
    
    Thanks in advance for any help,
    
    Hill... 
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683.1CSC32::HOEPNERA closed mouth gathers no feetThu Mar 13 1997 20:396
    
    Which version of NT Clusters is your customer running? 
    
    How long did he wait before determining the shares were gone. 
    Sometimes it takes a while for the devices to come on line. 
    
683.2Customer is running NT Clusters V1.0 with Service Pack 1PRMS01::HCARTERM. Hill Carter @DTN 339-7781Fri Mar 14 1997 14:072
    
    The Customer is running NT Clusters V1.0 with Service Pack 1.
683.3MPOS01::naiad.mpo.dec.com::mpos01::cerlingI'm@witz.endMon Mar 17 1997 13:219
	I would tend to agree with Mary Jo's assessment.  SP1 caused the
	failover time of shares to increase significantly.  If, during the
	reboot, the shares came up on the 'wrong' system, and they were
	set to failback, then you would have this timing problem.  I noticed
	that failover took up to thirty seconds per share.  Have your
	customer apply SP2.  I think that fixed the timing problem.

tgc