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OCFS2 Mount Fails with 'Cluster name is invalid while trying to join the group' Error

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86-64

Symptoms:

When a secondary network interface is being used for the heartbeat, the OCFS2 service does not mount the shared storage after a reboot, displaying the following error:

mount.ocfs2: Cluster name is invalid while trying to join the group

The storage mounts successfully only after manually executing ‘o2cb register-cluster cluster-name’ or restarting the o2cb service ‘sudo systemctl restart o2cb.service’. This should happen automatically without manual intervention.

Cause:

The issue occurs because the o2cb service starts before the secondary VNIC is fully initialized, requiring a manual restart of the o2cb service to mount the volume.

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