Hi Everyone... Hope that everyone is doing fine. We have an ocfs2 installation (linux x86_64, RHEL4 update 5), ocfs2 1.2.5. Oracle 10gR2 Rac 10.2.0.2 2 nodes. When we were testing failures, we unplugged the private interfaces from 1 node. As expected 1 node rebooted. As it was coming up we realized (From the error messages on the console) that ocfs was having trouble mounting the devices. As you would have guessed we had not plugged the private interface back in. Once we plugged in the private interface the node booted up successfully. All mount points mounted properly (From what we could tell). BUT, one mount point was missing the datafile in it (All others had the datafiles intact) Can someone attempt to explain this behaviour ? P.S once i shut down the database on this node (Since it was giving the datafile missing in the alert log) and rebooted the node, all the ocfs mount points came back up fully mounted and with all the datafiles in it. Thank you for your help with this. Have a great day. </R> -- Oracle Email Signature Logo Rajeev Ramdas | Grid Solution Specialist | 6037388061 Oracle Sales Consulting 1 Oracle Drive, Nashua, NH