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If a node does not leave a cluster cleanly, this is because it crashed or because some cluster component made the node leave on an emergency basis. The ensuing cluster reconfiguration calls the VxVM abort function. This procedure immediately attempts to halt all access to shared volumes, although it does wait until pending I/O from or to the disk completes.
I/O operations that have not yet been started are failed, and the shared volumes are removed. Applications that were accessing the shared volumes therefore fail with errors.
After a node abort or crash, shared volumes must be recovered, either by a surviving node or by a subsequent cluster restart, because it is very likely that there are unsynchronized mirrors.