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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><br>5. The manual/help says in bold letters: "Remember: DO NOT shut down any of node before deactivating the cluster! <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, thank you for your feedbacks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The second part of the sentence 'before deactivating the cluster' is to make sure there are no active recovery when you shut down the cluster.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I may have to test this because I think it shouldn't really cause problem but, if you want to be 100% sure of not getting issues when restarting the cluster, it may be better to stop it when it's not in recovery.<br><br>DO NOT shut down / kill a node after the other.". Yet isn't the point of sheepdog to be a distributed highly available storage system,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>With that I meant "the right procedure to stop the cluster is not to shutdown/kill a node after the other".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I'm going to change a bit the doc so it's more clear.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[gr] So what is the correct way to shutdown a cluster? It’s still not clear to me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks & Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gerald<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>