# Mongrel cluster mysteriously stopping when using shared FS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-mysteriously-stopping-when-using-shared-fs/139758>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 6, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-mysteriously-stopping-when-using-shared-fs/139758 "2008-06-06T19:14:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-cluster-mysteriously-stopping-when-using-shared-fs/139758/1 "2008-06-06T19:14:58Z")

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Hi,  
I have a number of servers running mongrel cluster all of whom feed off  
of a shared filesystem (OCFS2). Each cluster has its own  
mongrel\_cluster\_web2.yml file with distinct PID and Log file names. In  
theory they shouldn’t be aware of each other’s presence.

What I have found is that when I want to test a new set of code on one  
server and I shut just that mongrel cluster down, all of its peers  
shutdown as well. Any ideas as to how this is possible? It would seem  
the mongrel cluster that is stopping is writing something to disk that  
the others are triggering on.

I am running mongrel 1.1.4 on Centos5.1, fully patched.

Thanks,  
Frank