I''m having a similar problem as Prajith had before except that this one involves multiple nodes and not the provided test configuration file. I am running RHEL4 It basically involves three nodes. One for the MDS and two for two OSTs. The OSTs are created fine, the MDS, however, hangs at the "MDS mount options: errors=remount-ro" line. The /etc/hosts file is as seen 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.100 mds 192.168.1.101 ost1 192.168.1.102 ost2 I''ve also tried it just as 192.168.1.100 localhost.localdomain 192.168.1.100 mds 192.168.1.101 ost1 192.168.1.102 ost2 and as 192.168.1.100 mds 192.168.1.101 ost1 192.168.1.102 ost2 Any/all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! Steven